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| Ulf Van Yern. [It was youthful Ulf Van Yern] This ballad was here printed from the Manuscript prepared for the projected Kœmpe Viser of 1854. In the MS of 1829 the ballad is entitled Ulf Van Yern and Vidrik Verlandson. The texts of the two versions differ widely in almost every stanza. | 5 |
| The Chosen Knight. [Sir Oluf rode forth over hill and lea] | 16 |
| Sir Swerkel. [There’s a dance in the hall of Sir Swerkel the Childe] | 19 |
| Finn and the Damsel, or The Trial of Wits. [“What’s rifer than leaves?” Finn cried] | 23 |
| Epigrams by Carolan: | |
| 1. On Friars. [Would’st thou on good terms with friars live] | 26 |
| 2. On a surly Butler, who had refused him admission to the cellar. [O Dermod Flynn it grieveth me] | 26 |
| Lines. [How deadly the blow I received] The last four lines of this Poem had already served (but with a widely different text) as the last four lines of the Ode from the Gaelic, printed in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp 142–143. | 27 |
There is a copy of Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.
(35) [Ellen of Villenskov: 1913]
Ellen of Villenskov / and Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 22; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3–4; and Text of the Ballads pp. 5–22. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Following p. 22 is a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the following imprint upon its recto: “London: / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), with B (a full sheet of eight leaves) inset within it.
Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8½ × 6⅞ inches.
Thirty Copies only were printed.