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.
ULF VAN YERN
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.
ULF VAN YERN
It was youthful Ulf Van Yern
Goes before the King to stand:
“To avenge my father’s death
Lend me warriors of thy band.”
“Of my kemps I’ll lend thee them
Who to follow thee consent;
Ask’st thou Vidrik Verlandson
Thou wilt further thy intent.
“I will lend thee of my men,
Thou shalt have the very flower;
Vidrik, and stark Diderik,
Many kemps have felt their power.
“They are heroes strong and bold
Who have battles often won;
Feared are they in every land
Where their names’ renown has gone.”