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diff --git a/28771-0.txt b/28771-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3441c71 --- /dev/null +++ b/28771-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,918 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Child Maidelvold, by Anonymous, Edited by +Thomas J. Wise, Translated by George Borrow + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Child Maidelvold + and other ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28771] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD MAIDELVOLD*** + + +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. + + + + + + CHILD MAIDELVOLD + 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_. + + + + +CHILD MAIDELVOLD. + + +The fair Sidselil, of all maidens the flower, +With her mother the Queen sat at work in her bower. + +So hard at the woof the fair Sidselil plies, +That out from her bosom, so white, the milk flies. + +“Now hear thou, O Sidselil, child of my heart, +What causes the milk from thy bosom to start?” + +“O that is not milk, my dear mother, I vow, +It is but the mead I was drinking just now.” + +“Unlike are the two, most unlike to the sight, +The one it is brown, and the other is white.” + +“I see it is best that the truth be declared, +The handsome Child Maidelvold me has ensnared.” + +“And if it be truth what thou now hast declared, +And handsome Child Maidelvold thee has ensnared, + +“Aloft on the gallows I’ll hang him, I trow, +And burn thee to ashes the gallows below.” + +Proud Sidselil she her blue mantle puts on, +And unto Child Maidelvold’s bower she is gone. + +With her fingers so tapering she twirled at the pin: +“Child Maidelvold rise, and with speed let me in.” + +“I’ve summoned no one the tribunal before, +And at night to no one will I open my door.” + +“Child Maidelvold rise, I beseech, in Christ’s name, +I’ve spoke to my mother who knows of my shame. + +“Aloft on the gallows she’ll hang thee, I trow, +And burn me to ashes the gallows below.” + +“O I will not hang, my sweet maiden, for thee +And thou shalt not burn, my sweet maiden, for me. + +“Collect thou thy gold in the coffer with speed, +And I’ll to the stable and saddle my steed.” + +He flung round the maiden his mantle so wide, +And he lifted her up on his courser of pride. + +They came to the wood of the briar and rose, +There Sidselil craved for a while to repose. + +“Now art thou fatigued by thy journey, sweet love, +Or say, does the saddle too close for thee prove?” + +“I am not o’ercome by the journey, sweet love, +But the saddle too close for my burden doth prove.” + +He spread on the cold earth his mantle so wide: +“Here rest thee a space and I’ll watch by thy side.” + +“O Jesus, that one of my maidens were near, +The pains of a mother are on me I fear.” + +“Thy maidens are now at a distance from thee, +And thou hast no one to assist thee but me.” + +“’Twere better to perish again and again, +Than thou should’st stand by me and gaze on my pain.” + +“Then take off thy kerchief and cover my head, +And perhaps I may stand in the wise woman’s stead.” + +“One draught of pure water could’st thou bring me now, +To cheer up my heart that is sinking so low?” + +So faithful to her was the Child, and so true, +He fetched her the drink in her gold spangled shoe. + +Child Maidelvold sped through the forest so black, +He went to the fountain the wearisome track. + +And when he arrived at the fount in the vale, +Two nightingales sat there and sang him their tale: + +“Dead Sidselil lieth beneath the green bough, +With two little babes on her bosom of snow.” + +He paid little heed to the nightingales’ lay, +And traced through the forest his wearisome way. + +But, ah! what a spectacle burst on his view, +The little birds’ story he found to be true. + +A grave broad and deep has Child Maidelvold made, +Therein the unfortunate three he has laid. + +As o’er them he clamped the mould down with his boot, +He thought that the babies screamed under his foot. + +Against a grey stone has the Child set his sword, +The point of the blade his heart mortally gor’d. + +He was true to his Sidselil whilst he had breath, +He lies ’neath the earth now beside her in death. + +*** Another, but widely different, version of this Ballad was printed in +_Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 28–31, under the title _Sir Middel_. In +this version the name of the heroine is Swanelil, in place of Sidselil; +and that of the hero is Sir Middel, in place of Child Maidelvold. + + + + +SIR PETER. + + +Sir Peter and Kirstin they sat by the board, +Betwixt them in jest there passed many a word. + +“Now listen to me, good Sir Peter the knight, +Say, when wilt thou me to thy bridal invite?” + +“’Twill be held in a far distant country, I trow, +So far that to come quite unable art thou.” + +“And though thou shouldst hold it, Sir Peter, in Rome, +If thou shouldst invite me I’d certainly come.” + +“And if at my bridals thou wish to appear, +Behind thou must leave all thy red golden gear.” + +“In my red golden gear I will ever go dight, +For it was not gained by dishonor, Sir Knight.” + +Sir Peter he bids them his bridals get ready, +Cries Kirstin: “Now shoe ye my palfrey so steady.” + +Fair Kirstin she saddles her courser so gray, +To the house of Sir Peter she taketh her way. + +She rides her horse into Sir Peter’s court yard, +And there stood the knight, clad in sable and mard. + +“Now hear thou, Sir Peter, so handsome and fine, +Say, may I this day skink before thee the wine?” + +“To skink wine before me if thee I permit, +Thou on the stone bench with the servants shalt sit.” + +Adown her cheeks trickled the tear-drops so free— +How hard by each mortal insulted to be! + +To the high and wide hall good Sir Peter proceeds, +Fair Kirstin behind him in rich scarlet weeds. + +A coronet glittered her temples upon, +And full of gold rings were her fingers, each one. + +When into the hall little Kirstin she came, +Uprose to receive her each maiden and dame. + +She took in her fair hand the white silver can, +To skink mead before the young knight she began. + +The youthful bride said to her servant: “Canst tell +The name of that skinker, that sweet demoiselle?” + +Then answered the servant, as low as she might: +“’Tis only Sir Peter his love-lady light.” + +“And if he possessed such a leman, why rode +Sir Peter the knight to my father’s abode? + +“And had good Sir Peter a leman so brave, +O why did he me of my father e’er crave. + +“More gold she displays on her ten fingers small, +Than my father could show in his good castle all.” + +Now o’er was the supper, the laugh and the song, +To retire to her bed the young bride she doth long. + +With the bride to the bridal apartment they go, +Fair Kirstin in front bears the yellow flambeau. + +The bride in the soft bridal couch they have plac’d, +To come to her arms good Sir Peter made haste. + + + + +INGEFRED AND GUDRUNE. + + +Ingefred and Gudrune they sate in their bower, +Each bloomed a beauteous fragrant flower— + _So sweet it is in summer tide_! + +A working the gold fair Ingefred kept, +Still sate Gudrune, and bitterly wept. + +“Dear sister Gudrune so fain I’d know +Why down thy cheek the salt tears flow?” + +“Cause enough have I to be thus forlorn, +With a load of sorrow my heart is worn. + +“Hear, Ingefred, hear what I say to thee, +Wilt thou to-night stand bride for me? + +“If bride for me thou wilt stand to-night, +I’ll give thee my bridal clothes thee to requite. + +“And more, much more to thee I’ll give, +All my bride jewels thou shalt receive.” + +“O I will not stand for bride in thy room, +Save I also obtain thy merry bridegroom.” + +“Betide me whatever the Lord ordain +From me my bridegroom thou never shalt gain.” + +In silks so costly the bride they arrayed, +And unto the kirk the bride they conveyed. + +In golden cloth weed the holy priest stands, +He joins of Gudrune and Samsing the hands. + +O’er the downs and green grass meadows they sped, +Where the herdsman watched his herd as it fed. + +“Of thy beauteous self, dear Damsel, take heed, +Ne’er enter the house of Sir Samsing, I rede. + +“Sir Samsing possesses two nightingales +Who tell of the Ladies such wondrous tales. + +“With their voices of harmony they can declare +Whether maiden or none has fallen to his share.” + +The chariot they stopped in the green wood shade, +An exchange ’twixt them of their clothes they made. + +They change of their dress whatever they please, +Their faces they cannot exchange with like ease. + +To Sir Samsing’s house the bride they conveyed, +Of the ruddy gold no spare was made. + +On the bridal throne the bride they plac’d, +They skinked the mead for the bride to taste. + +Then said from his place the court buffoon, +“Methinks thou art Ingefred not Gudrune.” + +From off her hand a gold ring she took, +Which she gave the buffoon with entreating look. + +Said he: “I’m an oaf and have drunk too hard, +To words of mine pay no regard.” + +’Twas deep at night, and down fell the mist, +To her bed the young bride they assist. + +Sir Samsing spoke to his nightingales twain: +“Before my young bride sing now a strain. + +“A song now sing which shall avouch +Whether I’ve a maiden or none in my couch.” + +“A maid’s in the bed, that’s certain and sure, +Gudrune is standing yet on the floor.” + +“Proud Ingefred straight from my couch retire! +Gudrune come hither, or dread my ire! + +“Now tell me, Gudrune, with open heart, +What made thee from thy bed depart?” + +“My father, alas! dwelt near the strand, +When war and bloodshed filled the land. + +“Full eight there were broke into my bower, +One only ravished my virgin flower.” + +Upon her fair cheek he gave a kiss: +“My dearest, my dearest, all sorrow dismiss; + +“My swains they were that broke into thy bower, +’Twas I that gathered thy virgin flower.” + +Fair Ingefred gained, because bride she had been, +One of the King’s knights of handsome mien. + + + + +SIR RIBOLT. + + +Ribolt the son of a Count was he— +Gulborg he courted in secrecy. + +Since she was a child the maid he woo’d, +And till she had come to womanhood. + +“Gulborg do thou become my bride, +In a better land then thou shalt reside. + +“Unto the land I thee will bear, +Where grief ne’er comes the mind to tear. + +“To an island ’neath a blissful sky, +Where thou shalt live and never die.” + +“To the land thou never me wilt bear, +But grief shall come the mind to tear. + +“Nor me to the isle wilt thou convey +Where I’ve no death to the Lord to pay.” + +“O there no grass but the leek up-springs, +And there no bird but the cuckoo sings. + +“No other water flows than wine, +Thou may’st believe these words of mine.” + +“But how from the Castle can I fly? +So many watch incessantly. + +“I’m watched by father, watched by mother, +By sister I am watched, and brother. + +“I’m watched by the man to whom I’m plighted, +And I fear him more than the rest united.” + +“Although by all thy clan controll’d, +Thy promise to me thou yet shall hold. + +“In my acton blue I thee will case, +And my golden helm on thy head I’ll place. + +“I’ll gird thee with my sword of worth, +Then none will think that a maid rides forth. + +“Decked with my gilded spurs so free, +Thou off may’st ride though thy father see.” + +O’er her he threw his mantle wide, +And set her upon his steed of pride. + +When on the moor themselves they found, +Met them a Count, in arms renown’d. + +“Here, Ribolt, hear, dear comrade mine, +Say, who’s that fair young page of thine?” + +“Comrade, it is my youngest brother, +I’ve ta’en him from his doting mother.” + +“It little avails such tales to tell; +Gulborg, Gulborg, I know thee well. + +“Thy scarlet dress thou may’st disguise, +But thy cheeks of rose I recognise. + +“Thy hair I know of fairest sort, +For long I’ve served at thy father’s court. + +“By thy garb and shoon I know thee not, +But I know the knight who thy troth has got.” + +A bracelet drew she forth of gold, +And gave it to that Count so bold: + +“Where’er thou rest thee at close of day, +Be sure no word of me thou say.” + +The Count he rode to Kulloe house, +Where the kemps were drinking a deep carouse. + +He enter’d at Sir Truid’s gate— +At his table wide Sir Truid sate. + +“Here, Truid, thou sitt’st the red wine taking, +Whilst Ribolt off with thy bride is making.” + +Then through his hall Sir Truid roar’d: +“Up, up, ye knights, take helm and sward!” + +Barely a mile had they advanced +When fair Gulborg behind her glanced. + +“O yonder my father’s steed I see, +And the knight who is betrothed to me.” + +“Gulborg, be therefore in no pain, +But hold our steeds by the bridle rein. + +“And though to earth thou see me fall, +Gulborg thou must not upon me call. + +“And though thou see me freely bleed, +Let not my name from thy mouth proceed.” + +His helm on his head Sir Ribolt cast, +Gulborg with her fair hands laced it fast. + +Then, crying his cry, he slays outright +Her father dear and her plighted knight, + +And, at the second “Halloo,” he slew +Her brothers with locks of yellow hue. + +“Desist, O Ribolt, my heart’s ador’d, +’Tis time, ’tis time to sheath thy sword. + +“My youngest brother I pray thee spare, +That he to my mother may tiding bear; + +“Bear her the tidings of the slaughter, +O would she never had borne a daughter!” + +Scarce had the name of Ribolt sounded, +When Ribolt tottered, deadly wounded. + +He sheathed his faulchion, blood be-dyed: +“Come, dear Gulborg, we hence will ride.” + +They thread the mazes of the wood, +No word escaped him, bad or good. + +“Hear, Ribolt, hear, my destined mate, +Why art not glad as thou wast of late?” + +“Gulborg, I feel my life-blood leak, +Gulborg, I feel me faint and weak. + +“But chiefly, chiefly I look not pleas’d +Because Death’s hand my heart has seiz’d.” + +“Myself of my girdle I’ll dis-array, +And thy streaming blood will stanch and stay.” + +“God bless thee ever, my own true love, +Of service slight will thy girdle prove.” + +And when to the Castle gate they won, +His mother stood there and leaned thereon. + +“Welcome, my son, thou art welcome twice, +And thy fair young bride she is welcome thrice. + +“I ne’er have seen a bride so pale +Come travelling over hill and dale.” + +“If pale she be is a wonder slight, +When she has witness’d so hard a fight. + +“God grant I may retain my breath +Whilst parting presents I bequeath. + +“To my father I give my courser tall, +O mother I pray thee a priest to call. + +“And unto my brother, who’s standing near, +I give Gulborg whom I love so dear.” + +“O willingly her to wife I’d take, +If, brother, ’twere not for the black sin’s sake.” + +“May the Lord God me in my trouble aid, +So sure as she is for me a maid. + +“’Twas only once that I had the bliss +From her rosy mouth to snatch a kiss.” + +“O better, better to sink in death, +Than unto two brothers plight my faith.” + +Ribolt was dead ere the cock did cry, +Gulborg was dead ere the sun was high. + +They bore from the Castle corses three, +A handsome corse was each to see. + +The one was Ribolt, the other his bride, +His mother the third, of grief she died. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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