Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes, and Other Ballads

by George Borrow

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London:
Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.

Edition limited to Thirty Copies

Footnotes

^[14] This is a much later, and greatly improved, version of the ballad which first appeared in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 136–138, and afterwards in Targum, 1835, pp. 42–43.

^[16] This ballad should be read in conjunction with Rosmer, printed in The Mermaid’s Prophecy, and other Songs relating to Queen Dagmar, 1913, pp. 25–30.

^[23] This ballad should be compared with The Wicked Stepmother, printed in The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 14–20.