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.
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:—