Reprinted in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 144–145.

Pp. 498–500.

Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A Prose Essay. Part ii.

(6) The Monthly Magazine, Vol. lix, 1825.

Pp. 25–26 and 103–104.

Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A Prose Essay. Parts iii and iv.

Pp. 143–144.

The Deceived Merman. [Fair Agnes left her mother’s door]

Reprinted (with very considerable changes in the text, the first line reading “Fair Agnes alone on the sea-shore stood”) in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 120–123.

In 1854 Borrow rewrote this Ballad, and furnished it with a new title Agnes and the Merman. The following stanzas taken from each, will serve to show the difference between the two versions:—