Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
PROUD SIGNILD
and
other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
PROUD SIGNILD.
Proud Signild’s bold brothers have taken her hand,
They’ve wedded her into a far distant land.
They’ve wedded her far from her own native land,
To her father’s foul murderer gave they her hand.
And so for eight winters the matter it stood,
Their face for eight winters she never once view’d.
Proud Signild she brews, and the ruddy wine blends;
To her brothers so courteous a bidding she sends.