Danish Poetry and Ballad Writing. A Prose Essay, including, inter alia, the following Ballad:
Skion Middel. [The maiden was lacing so tightly her vest]
Reprinted, under the amended title Sir Middel, the first line reading “So tightly was Swanelil lacing her vest,” in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 28–30.
Another, but widely different, version of this Ballad is printed in Child Maidelvold and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 5–10. In this latter version the name of the heroine is Sidselil in place of Swanelil, and that of the hero is Child Maidelvold in place of Sir Middel.
Lenora. [When morning’s gleam was on the hill]
P. 437.
Chloe. [Oh! we have a sister on earthly dominions]
Reprinted in Targum, 1835, pp. 47–48.
When gathering Chloe into the pages of Targum Borrow very considerably revised the text. Here is the concluding stanza of each of the two versions:—