Of the wild Danish sea-kings; the fierce beak
Of Rome’s victorious eagle: Pictish spear
And Scottish claymore in confusion mixed
With England’s clothyard arrow.”
VIEW FROM THE LONG WALK, CORBY CASTLE (p. [307]).
ROCK STAIRWAY TO THE BOATHOUSE, CORBY CASTLE.
Some of these legends are but half told or half sung. One scarcely coherent, yet weird and powerful, ballad suggests an ancient, and but for it forgotten, tragedy:—
“She’s howket a grave by the light o’ the moon.