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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: The Mermaid's Prophecy + and Other Songs Relating to Queen Dagmar + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 15, 2009 [eBook #28824] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MERMAID'S PROPHECY*** +</pre> +<p>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.</p> +<h1><span class="smcap">the</span><br /> +MERMAID’S PROPHECY<br /> +<span class="smcap">and other</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">songs relating to queen dagmar</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span><br /> +1913</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>SONGS RELATING TO QUEEN DAGMAR</h2> +<h3>I. KING VALDEMAR’S WOOING.</h3> +<p>Valdemar King and Sir Strange bold<br /> + At table sat one day,<br /> +So many a word ’twixt them there passed<br /> + In amicable way.</p> +<p>“Hear Strange, hear! thou for a time<br /> + Thy native land must leave;<br /> +Thou shalt away to Bohemia far<br /> + My young bride to receive.”</p> +<p>Then answered Strange Ebbesen,<br /> + To answer he was not slow:<br /> +“Who shall attend me of thy liegemen,<br /> + If I to Bohemia go?”</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>“Do thou take with thee young Lord Limbek,<br /> + Nor leave Olaf Lukke behind;<br /> +Take rich Peter Glob, and whomsoe’er<br /> + Shall best please thine own mind.</p> +<p>“Take Sealand’s Bishop, none more learned<br /> + There dwelleth North nor South,<br /> +And take Sir Albert of Eskilsea,<br /> + There’s eloquence in his mouth.”</p> +<p>It was the young Sir Strange bold,<br /> + He down to the sea shore wends,<br /> +And him King Valdemar himself<br /> + With nobles many attends.</p> +<p>And they sailed over the briny wave,<br /> + They sailed for sennights three,<br /> +The nearest way to Bohemia’s bounds,<br /> + They were at heart so free.</p> +<p>They furled their sail, and their anchor dropped,<br /> + To the land they eagerly sped;<br /> +So fair a band of knights they were,<br /> + Sir Strange at their head.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>When a little up the land they’d won<br /> + They dispatched their messenger,<br /> +Should tell to Bohemia’s prince that they<br /> + The Dane-king’s envoys were.</p> +<p>And to speak with him in secrecy<br /> + On a matter of weight they sought;<br /> +Then silk upon the earth was spread,<br /> + And before the King they were brought.</p> +<p>“Hail to thee, King of Bohemian Land,<br /> + Thou sittest a prince in state;<br /> +To you sends Valdemar, Denmark’s King,<br /> + With your daughter he would mate.”</p> +<p>“Take napkins, Sirs, and water take,<br /> + Sit down at our table board;<br /> +We bid ye welcome to our land,<br /> + Fit answer we’ll award.”</p> +<p>To the bower high the monarch sped,<br /> + His Queen’s advice to take:<br /> +“Nobles are here from Denmark come,<br /> + And suit for our daughter make.”</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>“If Valdemar, King of Denmark’s land,<br /> + For our dear daughter woo,<br /> +We’ll give her to the powerful man,<br /> + And precious dowry too.”</p> +<p>They decked her with the ruddy gold,<br /> + And her to the hall convey’d;<br /> +Sir Strange the knight, so fair and fine,<br /> + A low obeisance made.</p> +<p>They clad her in the silken vest,<br /> + And her to the hall conveyed:<br /> +“Here mayst thou see the princess self<br /> + In her graces all arrayed.”</p> +<p>Then they bore in the playing board,<br /> + Was wroughten all of gold;<br /> +Sir Strange should with the princess play,<br /> + And private converse hold.</p> +<p>The third game they together played<br /> + Upon that red gold board,<br /> +Sir Strange won the noble maid<br /> + For Valdemar his lord.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>So deep ’twas getting in the night,<br /> + From tables they should rise,<br /> +Sir Strange must the princess bed,<br /> + Sir Strange bold and wise.</p> +<p>Then they the Damsel attend to bed<br /> + To the valiant cavalier,<br /> +Sir Strange with respectful grace<br /> + Arose when she drew near.</p> +<p>“Now on your honour and knightly truth,<br /> + Sir Strange tell to me:<br /> +Whether the King of your Danish land<br /> + Be handsome or not to see?”</p> +<p>Then answer made Sir Strange good,<br /> + Looked up to the star-lit sky:<br /> +“By the Saints above, the King of our love<br /> + Is handsomer twice than I.”</p> +<p>They spread the silk upon the earth,<br /> + And the princess led to the strand,<br /> +To her parents dear, she bade good-night,<br /> + And away they bore from land.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>It was the good Bohemian King<br /> + To advising his daughter fell:<br /> +“Think, think my child, on honor and fame<br /> + When thou in Denmark dwell.</p> +<p>“Pious and virtuous, kind and good,<br /> + To prove thyself essay<br /> +To thy subjects all, for thus wilt thou<br /> + Become their hope and stay.”</p> +<p>The nobles steered their ship from the land,<br /> + No cares their hearts oppress,<br /> +And they the land of Denmark made<br /> + In two months tide and less.</p> +<p>It was the beauteous Dagmar Queen<br /> + Before Mando neared the land,<br /> +And lo! the bold King of Denmark rode<br /> + His courser on the sand.</p> +<p>“Tell me, Sir Strange Ebbesen,<br /> + Ere we come nearer land,<br /> +What squinting fellow ’tis who rides<br /> + So brisk on the yellow sand?”</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>“Be welcome, beauteous Dagmar Queen,<br /> + Speak thereabout no word;<br /> +For know ’tis Valdemar of Denmark,<br /> + Of kingdoms three the lord.</p> +<p>“My gracious liege, lady Dagmar fair,<br /> + Of princes he’s the flower,<br /> +He castles has, and fortresses,<br /> + Three kingdoms own his power.”</p> +<p>“Shame, shame befall thee, Strange dog,<br /> + How loudly thou canst lie;<br /> +Methinks your boasted Danish King<br /> + Has only got one eye.”</p> +<p>“My lovely Dame, a warrior he,<br /> + And the best beneath the sun;<br /> +He back to Denmark all the land<br /> + Benorth Ebb’s stream has won.</p> +<p>“A man is he, and a prince full wise,<br /> + In the face dares look his foes;<br /> +They fly before him both East and West,<br /> + When he with fury glows.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“Who others life and land will risk<br /> + And prove war’s pastime fell,<br /> +If a prince of blood and courageous mood<br /> + Will risk himself as well?</p> +<p>“And do thou hear, my lovely maid,<br /> + Be cheerful and content,<br /> +For ne’er so long as thou shalt live<br /> + This step thou shalt repent.</p> +<p>“And all the time that thou shalt live<br /> + Your servant I will be,<br /> +And Denmark’s gallant nobles all<br /> + Shall bow to thee their knee.”</p> +<p>So they their bridal solemnized<br /> + Beneath a lucky star;<br /> +So heartily one another loved<br /> + Soon Valdemar and Dagmar.</p> +<p>There was rejoicing with great and small,<br /> + With rich men and with poor,<br /> +But boors and burgers most of all<br /> + Rejoiced from their heart’s core.</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>She came not to burden, she came in peace,<br /> + To ease the good boor she came;<br /> +If Denmark aye such flowers had<br /> + She dearly would prize the same!</p> +<p>The love of every Danish heart<br /> + The good Queen Dagmar gained;<br /> +Such happy pleasant days there were<br /> + Whilst she alive remained.</p> +<h3><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>II. QUEEN DAGMAR’S ARRIVAL IN DENMARK.</h3> +<p>It was Bohemia’s Queen began<br /> + Her daughter to direct:<br /> +“They’ll show thee, when thou to Denmark come,<br /> + Much honor and respect.</p> +<p>“And when respect and honor thou win<br /> + In Denmark’s land of fame,<br /> +Let not the boors be with tax opprest,<br /> + Thus will they bless thy name.</p> +<p>“Be the first boon thou of thy lord dost crave,<br /> + Of thy lord so fair and kind,<br /> +That he release Bishop Valdemar,<br /> + His uncle, who sits confin’d.”</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>And there was silk and scarlet cloth<br /> + Upon the earth outspread;<br /> +’Twas Dagmar, the youthful princess fair,<br /> + To the strand that down was led.</p> +<p>They hoisted up their silken sails<br /> + On the gilded yard so high,<br /> +And they in less than two months space<br /> + Old Denmark could descry.</p> +<p>Before Mando they anchor cast,<br /> + They cast it on the white sand;<br /> +They took the princess Dagmar fair<br /> + And bore her first to land.</p> +<p>They took the youthful Dagmar fair<br /> + And bore her first to land;<br /> +’Twas Valdemar King of Denmark old<br /> + That stretched to her his hand.</p> +<p>Then there was silk, and scarlet cloth,<br /> + So wide on the earth outspread;<br /> +On Dagmar wait both Dames and maids,<br /> + To Ribe house she was led.</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>So early in the morning tide<br /> + Ere the sun illumed the lift,<br /> +’Twas young and beauteous Dagmar Queen<br /> + That craved her morning gift.</p> +<p>“The first, first boon that I crave of thee,<br /> + My heart’s beloved lord,<br /> +Let Bishop Valdemar leave his tower<br /> + And be to his friends restor’d.</p> +<p>“The second boon I most earnestly crave,<br /> + Nor must thou that refuse,<br /> +Take off from each plough the tax that’s on,<br /> + And from prison the captives loose.”</p> +<p>“Desist, desist from thy first prayer,<br /> + Desist, my Dagmar dear,<br /> +If Valdemar Bishop come but out,<br /> + He’ll widow thee in a year.”</p> +<p>She took the gold crown off her brow,<br /> + On the table that she set:<br /> +“O what shall I do in Denmark, now<br /> + My request denial has met?”</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>“Straight fetch to me hither Sir Strange +knight,<br /> + And Younker Canute to me call,<br /> +They shall away to Oringsdorg<br /> + And the prisoners free from thrall.”</p> +<p>And when from the tower forth he came<br /> + Nor walk nor stand he mought:<br /> +“Therein for full twelve years I sat,<br /> + So long the time I thought.”</p> +<p>A golden comb his sister took,<br /> + And combed his yellow hair;<br /> +For every lock of his she smoothed<br /> + She shed a briny tear.</p> +<p>“And do thou hear, dear sister mine,<br /> + Ne’er sorrow for my sake;<br /> +If I one single year survive<br /> + I’ll well my wrongs ywrake.”</p> +<p>“O hush, Bishop Valdemar! nor let<br /> + Thy fury o’er thee reign;<br /> +Comst thou once more into Seaborough tower,<br /> + We ne’er shall meet again.”</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>But the Bishop could not stifle his wrath,<br /> + So the land he was forced to quit;<br /> +It grieved Queen Dagmar to the heart,<br /> + That he showed so little wit.</p> +<p>There was great joy over all Denmark<br /> + That Dagmar for Queen they had got;<br /> +Lived burger and boor in peace without<br /> + The plague of plough-tax and scot.</p> +<p>Christ bless the youthful Athelings two,<br /> + And lengthen their vital span,<br /> +That justice they may, and equity,<br /> + Do long in sight of man!</p> +<h3><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>III. THE MERMAID’S PROPHECY.</h3> +<p>The King he has caught the fair mermaid, and deep<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +In the dungeon has placed her, to pine and to weep,<br /> + Because his will she had not done.</p> +<p>The Queen of the Danes addressed two of her band:<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +“To come to my presence the mermaid command,<br /> + For my will by her it shall be done.”</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>The mermaid came in, to the Queen she up went:<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +“What wilt thou, O Queen, that for me thou hast sent?<br /> + By me thy will can never be done.”</p> +<p>The Queen the blue cushion stroked down with a smile:<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +“Sit down pretty mermaid and rest thee awhile,<br /> + My will by thee must now be done.”</p> +<p>“Why seek’st thou, O Queen, to betray my young +life?<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +For under that cushion is stuck a sharp knife,<br /> + By me thy will can never be done.”</p> +<p>“If thou knowest that, then much more thou dost know,<br +/> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +So do thou my destiny unto me show,<br /> + And thus by thee shall my will be done.”</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>“If I should thy destiny to thee announce,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +On a fire of faggots thoud’st burn me at once!<br /> + By me unwilling your will is done.</p> +<p>“Three babes thou shalt bear, each a beautiful boy,<br +/> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +And in leaving thy womb they thy life shall destroy,<br /> + And thus fair Queen thy will is done.”</p> +<p>“If with me, luckless me, it no better shall speed,<br +/> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +Inform me what fortune for them is decreed,<br /> + For thus by thee can my will be done.”</p> +<p>“The first shall be King in old Denmark of them,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +The next shall succeed to the gold diadem,<br /> + By me can thus thy will be done.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>“The third as the wisest of mortals shall +shine,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +And for him thou art doomed thy young life to resign,<br /> + Thus all your will, fair Queen, I’ve +done.”</p> +<p>In her mantle of azure the Queen wrapt her head,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +And unto the hall to the Monarch she sped,<br /> + For she her will had fairly done.</p> +<p>“Now hear my entreaty, my heart’s belov’d +Lord,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +To my own disposal this mermaid award,<br /> + For she my will has fairly done.”</p> +<p>“I’ll not give her thee, nor her life shalt thou +save,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +For my seven brave vessels she swamped in the wave,<br /> + My pleasure thus she has not done.”</p> +<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>Black, black as a clod grew the Queen at that word,<br +/> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +And down she fell senseless before the King’s board,<br /> + Because her will she had fairly clone.</p> +<p>“My Queen and my dearest! thy heart shall not break,<br +/> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +Thou art free to the strand the fair mermaid to take,<br /> + Because thy will she has fairly done.”</p> +<p>The mermaid in scarlet so fine she array’d,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +Although she had heard her own death by her spaed,<br /> + For thus, for thus, her will she’d done.</p> +<p>The Queen gave command to the maids in her train:<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +“Convey ye the mermaid hence down to the main,<br /> + For she my will has fairly done.”</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>Upon the blue billows the mermaid they place,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +The Queen fell to weeping, and sad was each face,<br /> + For she her will, alack! had done.</p> +<p>“O prythee don’t weep, and O prythee don’t +grieve,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +Heaven’s portals stand open thy soul to receive,<br /> + Now I thy will have fairly done.</p> +<p>“In the mansions of Heaven thou aye shalt remain,<br /> + (<i>The mermaid dances the floor upon</i>)<br /> +And there perfect quiet and rest thou shalt gain—<br /> + Now all thy will, fair Queen, I’ve +done!”</p> +<h2><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>ROSMER.</h2> +<p>Buckshank bold, and Elfinstone,<br /> + And more than I can mention here.<br /> +They caused to be built so stout a ship,<br /> + And unto Iceland they will steer.</p> +<p>They launched the ship upon the sea,<br /> + Which bellowed like a wrathful bear;<br /> +Down to the bottom the vessel sank,<br /> + A laidly Trold has dragged it there.</p> +<p>Sank to the bottom the young Roland,<br /> + And round about he groped awhile.<br /> +Until he found the path which led<br /> + Unto the bower of Ellenlile.</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>Young Roland towards the mountain goes,<br /> + He saw the little sparkles fly:<br /> +“Betide whate’er the Lord God will<br /> + I here will house me verily.”</p> +<p>Young Roland into the mountain went,<br /> + Benumbed with cold his limbs they shook:<br /> +“What dost thou here, thou wretched man,<br /> + On whom the Lord with pity look?”</p> +<p>Then up and spoke Dame Ellenlile:<br /> + “Young swain why hither hast thou come?<br /> +What message hast thou brought to me?<br /> + Thou’dst better far have staid at home.</p> +<p>“Now hie thee to the chamber in,<br /> + So frozen and so wet withal;<br /> +But cometh Rosmer Giant home<br /> + He’ll tear thee into pieces small.</p> +<p>“Now sit thee down, thou wretched lad,<br /> + And at the fire thy body cheer;<br /> +If Rosmer Giant come striding in<br /> + He’ll stick thee on this spit, I +fear.”</p> +<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>Then home came Rosmer Shank-stretcher,<br /> + And thus in anger he began:<br /> +“Full certainly there’s hither come<br /> + Some Christian woman, child, or man.”</p> +<p>Then forward stepped she, Ellenlile,<br /> + And swore so high and solemnly:<br /> +“A crow which bore a dead man’s leg<br /> + E’en now across the house did fly.</p> +<p>“A crow which bore a dead man’s leg<br /> + Just now across our house did fly;<br /> +He cast it in, I cast it out,<br /> + And that I trow full speedily.”</p> +<p>But Rosmer shrieked and sprang about:<br /> + “Some Christian wight thon dost conceal,<br /> +And I will spit and burn thee, Dame,<br /> + Unless the truth thou dost reveal.”</p> +<p>Then Ellenlile her mantle donned,<br /> + And went and stood by Rosmer’s knee:<br /> +“O here’s a swain from Iceland come,<br /> + And he’s of nearest kin to me.”</p> +<p><!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>“If there’s a swain from Iceland come,<br /> + And if he be thy kinsman near,<br /> +Then I to him will safety pledge,<br /> + No harm from me he need to fear.”</p> +<p>When he two years in the sea had been,<br /> + Young Roland he would fain be gone;<br /> +For Ellenlile was now with child,<br /> + A deed of folly had been done.</p> +<p>When that perceived proud Ellenlile,<br /> + Near Rosmer King she took her stand:<br /> +“Now wilt thou give the stranger lad<br /> + Leave to return to his own land?”</p> +<p>“And if the swain for home doth long,<br /> + Then I will take him to the shore;<br /> +And I will give him silver and gold,<br /> + And in a coffer it will store.</p> +<p>And so he took the ruddy gold,<br /> + And in a coffer it he laid;<br /> +Unknown to him proud Ellenlile<br /> + So sly therein herself convey’d.</p> +<p><!-- page 29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>He takes the man beneath his arm,<br /> + The coffer on his back he throws;<br /> +Then away, away beneath the salt spray<br /> + Striding the Giant Rosmer goes.</p> +<p>“Now have I brought thee to the land,<br /> + And moon and sun thou canst behold;<br /> +And now to use as thou shalt chuse<br /> + I give this coffer filled with gold.”</p> +<p>“I thank thee, Rosmer, honest man,<br /> + Thou’st brought me out of the ocean wild;<br +/> +And now I’ll tell thee a piece of news,<br /> + The proud Dame Ellen is with child.”</p> +<p>Then ran the tears down Rosmer’s cheeks,<br /> + As falls the dew on hill and plain:<br /> +“If thou hadst not my troth and oath<br /> + Here as thou standest thee I’d +brain.”</p> +<p>Rosmer hied to the hill so fast,<br /> + As hind before the hart doth run;<br /> +And when he came within the hill<br /> + Behold proud Ellenlile was gone.</p> +<p><!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>But Ellenlile took Roland’s hand,<br /> + ’Midst sport and jest away they hied;<br /> +To young Roland she told her tale,<br /> + And Roland served her as a guide.</p> +<p>When Rosmer saw his love was gone,<br /> + So full was he of grief and dool,<br /> +He turned him into a huge grey rock,<br /> + And there he standeth like a fool.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 31--><a +name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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