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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 Verner Raven; The Count of Vendel's Daughter + and other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 29, 2009 [eBook #28825] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VERNER RAVEN; THE COUNT OF +VENDEL'S DAUGHTER*** + + +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. + + + + + + THE VERNER RAVEN + THE COUNT OF VENDEL’S + DAUGHTER + 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_. + + + + +THE VERNER RAVEN + + +The Raven he flies in the evening tide, + He in day dares not intrude; +Whoever is born to have evil luck + In vain may seek for good. + +Lustily flies the Verner Raven, + High o’er the wall he’s flown, +For he was aware that Irmindlin fair + Sate in her bower alone. + +He southward flew, and he northward flew, + He flew high up in the cloud; +And he beheld May Irmindlin + Who sorrowing sate and sew’d. + +“Now hear me, little Irmindlin, + Why weep in this piteous way? +For father or mother, or is it for brother, + That adown thy cheek tears stray?” + +It was Damsel Irmindlin, + Swift out of the window looked she: +“O who is he that will comfort me, + And list to my misery? + +“Hear thou, wild Raven, bird of Death, + Fly thou hither down to me; +And all my trouble and all my care + I’ll straight relate to thee. + +“My father gave me the son of a king, + We were fitted the one for the other, +But he was into the Austrian land + Dispatched by my cruel step-mother. + +“So happily we should together have lived, + For he my whole love won; +But she wished to give me her sister’s son, + Who was liker a fiend than a man. + +“I had a gallant brother once, + Sir Verner by name was he, +But he was transformed by my cruel step-dame + And driven to a strange countrie.” + +“Hear thou, Damsel Irmindlin, + What wilt thou give me, say? +I’ll carry thee straight to thy plighted youth, + If with me thou wilt fly away.” + +“Thou shalt from me the ruddy gold, + And the silver white receive; +If thou bear me to my Bridegroom bold, + And me from my woe relieve.” + +“Keep thou thyself thy silver and gold, + Such gifts I do not crave; +The first son thou conceivest of him, + That, that from thee I’ll have.” + +Then straight she took the Raven’s foot, + Laid that her white hand upon; +She swore to him by her Christian faith, + That he should have the son. + +Then took he Damsel Irmindlin, + He placed her on his back; +Then flew he over the wild sea waves + As fast as he could track. + +It was the Verner Raven wild, + On the turret he alighted: +“Now sit we, Damsel, upon the house, + Where dwells thy Bridegroom plighted.” + +Out came bold Sir Nilaus, + A silver cup in his hand: +“Be welcome, Damsel Irmindlin, + Here to this foreign land! + +“What shall I give to thee, Raven wild, + That hast brought to me my Bride? +No better tidings I have heard, + Since from Denmark forth I hied.” + +Thanks be to brave Sir Nilaus, + He kept his faith so well; +The Monday next that followed, + His bridal it befell. + +They their bridal solemnised + With glee and utmost joy; +When forty weeks away had flown + She brought into the world a boy. + +It was the Verner Raven, + Perched on the turret tall: +“What thou did’st promise me, Irmindlin, + To thy mind I’d have thee call.” + +So sorely she wept, and her hands she smote, + Because it a girl was not: +“Thee shall the wild Death Raven have, + That will cost thee thy life, I wot!” + +There came flying over the house + The Raven, with looks to scare; +So sorely then wept both Maidens and Dames, + And their hands wrung in despair. + +Sir Nilaus went, and proffered the bird + Proud castles many a one; +He proffered him even the half of his land + If he only might keep his son. + +“If I get not the little babe, + Thou sorely shall rue it straight, +Thee I limb from limb will tear + And thy kingdom devastate.” + +She has taken the babe, and in linen white + Hath wrapped it tenderly; +“Farewell, farewell, my dearest son, + Thou owest thy death to me.” + +Then bore they out the little babe, + On its mother’s breast that lay; +O’er the cheeks of all did big tears fall, + Such woe was and wail that day. + +The Raven took the child in his claw, + He croaked in joyous guise; +Sir Nilaus stood and looked thereon, + Pouring forth bitter sighs. + +Then tore he amain its right eye out, + Drank the half of its heart’s red blood; +Then he became the handsomest knight + That upon earth e’er stood. + +He changed into the loveliest knight + That with eye man ever had seen: +It was Irmindlin’s brother himself, + Who had long enchanted been. + +All the folk that stood thereby, + They fell upon their knees bare; +And the child it was to life restored + When to God they had made their prayer. + +Now sitteth Dame Irmindlin so glad, + All her grief has from her hied; +For she has now both brother and son, + And sleeps by Sir Nilaus’ side. + + + + +THE COUNT OF VENDEL’S +DAUGHTER + + +Within a bower the womb I left, + ’Midst dames and maids who stood to aid; +They wrapped me first in silken weft, + And next in scarlet red array’d. + +But a stepdame soon ’twas my lot to get, + And fierce and wild she proved to me; +Within a coffer me she set, + And pushed it out upon the sea. + +By one wave I was borne to land, + And by the next away was ta’en; +But God on High, it seems, had plann’d, + That I should footing there obtain. + +The tide it drove me to the shore, + And in its backward course retook; +Sure ne’er had child of king before + Such buffeting on sea to brook. + +But God He help’d me, so that I + Was cast above the billows’ reach; +And soon a savage wolf drew nigh, + Was prowling on the sandy beach. + +Soon prowling came a wolf so gray, + And me up-taking in his jaws, +He carried me with care away + Deep, deep into the forest shaws. + +That self-same wolf he was so kind + That me beneath a tree he laid; +And then came running a nimble hind, + And me unto its lair convey’d. + +There me for winter one she nurs’d— + She nursed me for two winters’ space. +To creep, to creep, I learnt at first, + And next I learnt to pace, to pace. + +And I was full eight years, I wot, + Within the quiet, green retreat. +Close couched beside the hind I got + Full many a slumber calm and sweet. + +I had clothes and shelter of no kind, + Except the linden green alone; +And, save the gentle forest hind, + Had nurse and foster-mother none. + +But forth on courser reeking hot + There rushed a knight of bearing bold, +And he my foster-mother shot + With arrow on the verdant wold. + +He pierced the hind with mortal wound, + And all our fond connection cut; +Then wrapped his cloak my frame around, + And me within his buckler put. + +That self-same knight, so bold and strong, + Within his bower the foundling bred; +He tended me both well and long, + And finally his bride he made. + +He had by long inquiry found + My father was a noble count +In Vendel’s land, who castles own’d, + And rul’d o’er many a plain and mount. + +The first night we together slept + Was fraught with woe of darkest hue; +Foes, whom he long at bay had kept, + Broke in on us, and him they slew. + +The night we lay together first + A deed of horror was fulfill’d; +The bride-house door his foemen burst, + And in my arms my husband kill’d. + +Soon, soon, my friends to counsel go, + A husband new they chose for me; +The cloister’s prior of mitred brow— + The good Sir Nilaus styl’d was he. + +But soon as I the threshold cross’d, + The nuns could not their fury smother; +They vow’d by God and all His Host, + The Prior Nilaus was my brother. + +Forth from the cloister him they drew, + They pelted him to death with stones; +I stood close by, and all could view, + I scarce could hear his piteous moans. + +Once more my friends to counsel hied, + For me another spouse they get— +Son of the King of England wide + Was he, and hight Sir Engelbret. + +Nine winters with that princely youth + I lived; of joy we had no dearth, +I tell to ye, for sooth and truth, + To ten fair sons that I gave birth. + +But pirate crews the land beset, + No one, no one, my grief could tell; +They slew with sword Sir Engelbret, + And nine of my fair sons as well. + +My husband and my sons with brand + They slew. How I bewail their case! +My tenth son here they from the land— + I never more shall see his face. + +Now is my care as complicate + As golden threads which maidens spin; +God crown with bliss Sir Engelbret, + He ever was so free from sin. + +But now I’ll take the holy vows, + Within the cloister under Ey; +I’ll ne’er become another’s spouse, + But in religion I will die. + +But first to all the country side + I will declare my bosom’s grief; +I find, the more my grief I hide, + The less, the less, is my relief. + + + + +THE CRUEL MOTHER-IN-LAW + + +From his home and his country Sir Volmor should fare, +His wife he commends to his mother’s best care. + +Proud Lyborg she sang, as the dancers she watched, +Behind stood Dame Ingeborg, malice she hatched. + +“To live to the Fall if the luck I enjoy +Fair lady, thy beautiful voice I’ll destroy.” + +Proud Lyborg’s fair maidens upon the floor sprang, +And all through the evening she unto them sang. + +But alack two short summer days scarcely had pass’d, +When in desperate sickness proud Lyborg lay fast. + +Proud Lyborg fell sick, and lay stretched on her bed, +Then backwards and forwards Dame Ingeborg sped. + +“Now hear me, Dame Ingeborg, dear mother mine, +Do bring me, I pray, either water or wine.” + +“The water is frozen, and frozen the wine, +And frozen the tap in each barrel of mine. + +“The door it is locked, and the keys are away, +But where, daughter dear, by the Saints I can’t say.” + +“If I can nor water nor wine from thee win, +Then open the door that the dew may rush in. + +“Cause the door to the North to be wide open set, +Then my feverish frame cool refreshment shall get.” + +“The door to the South I’ll have straightway undone, +That the hot sun may flash in thy visage upon.” + +“O would there were one that for sweet pity’s sake, +To my mother a message in secret would take.” + +Then answer’d proud Lyborg’s own little foot-boy: +“Your message in secret I’ll carry with joy.” + +That they were alone they with confidence thought; +Dame Ingeborg stood nigh, and every word caught. + +The lad he upsprang on his courser so high, +He galloped as fast as the wingèd birds fly. + +In, in came the lad, in a kirtle red drest: +“Your daughter, Dame Lyborg, in death will soon rest. + +“She bids you to come with all possible quickness, +To live through this night she can’t hope from her sickness.” + +Straight unto her servants proud Mettelil says: +“My horses go fetch from the meads where they graze.” + +The horses they galloped, the chariot wheels turned, +Throughout the long day whilst the summer heat burned. + +The midsummer’s sun with such fury it glows +Proud Lyborg swoons ’neath it in terrible throes. + +A purse takes Dame Ingeborg fraught with gold treasure, +And she speeds to the hall, her heart bounding with pleasure. + +“Whosoever will gold and will bounty derive, +Let him help me to bury proud Lyborg alive.” + +Soon as she of the gold distribution had made, +Below the black earth the fair lily they laid. + +To the gate of the castle proud Mettelil came, +Dame Ingeborg stood there, and leaned on the same. + +“Proud Ingeborg, hear what I say unto thee: +What hast done with my daughter? declare that to me!” + +“But yesterday ’twas that with sorrowful mind, +Her corse to the arms of the grave we consign’d.” + +“Proud Ingeborg, hush thee, nor talk in this guise, +But show me the grave where my dear daughter lies.” + +As soon as Dame Mettelil o’er the place trod, +Proud Lyborg she screamed underneath the green sod. + +“Whoever will gold and will silver obtain, +Let him help me to dig now with might and with main.” + +They took up proud Lyborg, all there as she lay, +Her mother flung o’er her the scarlet array. + +“Now tell to me, Lyborg, thou child of my heart, +Since restored to the arms of thy mother thou art, + +“What death to thy thinking should Ingeborg thole, +For placing thee living in horrid grave-hole?” + +“To destroy my young life it is true, she was bent, +But let her live, mother, and let her repent.” + +“That she go unpunished I cannot permit, +I’ll teach her what ’tis on a fire to sit.” + +To two of her servants proud Mettelil spake: +“Do ye quickly a fire on the open field make. + +“Do ye cut down the oak and the bonny ash-tree, +That the fire by them fed may burn brilliant and free.” + +Dame Ingeborg forth from the house they convey’d, +And they burnt her to dust on the fire they had made. + +Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife, +Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife. + +Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife, +Burnt, burnt was his mother, and flown was his wife. + +He bade for proud Lyborg of red gold a store, +But he could the lily obtain nevermore. + + + + +THE FAITHFUL KING OF THULE + + +A king so true and steady + In Thule lived of old; +To him his dying lady + A goblet gave of gold. + +He drank thereout so often, + For all his love it gained; +To tears his eyes would soften + Whene’er its juice he drained. + +When death drew nigh, his spirit + His riches o’er he told +To him who should inherit— + But not that cup of gold. + +By all his knights surrounded + One day he sat at dine, +In hall of fortress, founded + By ocean’s roaring brine. + +The ancient hero rallies + With one more draught his blood, +Then casts the sacred chalice + Below him in the flood. + +Deep, deep within the billows + He watched it as it sank; +Then, sinking on his pillows, + No drop more e’er he drank. + + + + +THE FAIRIES’ SONG + + +Balmy the evening air, + Nature, how bright the hue! +But, though the bloom is fair + The sense with sweets to woo, +Love, Music, Mirth, Oh give! + On these we Fairies live! + +The glow-worm’s amorous lamp + Recalls her wandering mate; +Their revel in the swamp + Outshines the halls of State. +Then, Spirits, hither fly, + And match their revelry! + +The Bat is on the wing, + And Gnats, what reels they run! +In wide or narrow ring, + An atmosphere of fun. +Then let us to the dance, + And feet like midges glance! + + * * * * * + + LONDON + Printed for THOMAS J. 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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 Verner Raven; The Count of Vendel's Daughter + and other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 29, 2009 [eBook #28825] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VERNER RAVEN; THE COUNT OF +VENDEL'S DAUGHTER*** +</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>THE VERNER RAVEN<br /> +<span class="smcap">the count of vendel’s</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">daughter</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">and other ballads</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> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>THE VERNER RAVEN</h2> +<p>The Raven he flies in the evening tide,<br /> + He in day dares not intrude;<br /> +Whoever is born to have evil luck<br /> + In vain may seek for good.</p> +<p>Lustily flies the Verner Raven,<br /> + High o’er the wall he’s flown,<br /> +For he was aware that Irmindlin fair<br /> + Sate in her bower alone.</p> +<p>He southward flew, and he northward flew,<br /> + He flew high up in the cloud;<br /> +And he beheld May Irmindlin<br /> + Who sorrowing sate and sew’d.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>“Now hear me, little Irmindlin,<br /> + Why weep in this piteous way?<br /> +For father or mother, or is it for brother,<br /> + That adown thy cheek tears stray?”</p> +<p>It was Damsel Irmindlin,<br /> + Swift out of the window looked she:<br /> +“O who is he that will comfort me,<br /> + And list to my misery?</p> +<p>“Hear thou, wild Raven, bird of Death,<br /> + Fly thou hither down to me;<br /> +And all my trouble and all my care<br /> + I’ll straight relate to thee.</p> +<p>“My father gave me the son of a king,<br /> + We were fitted the one for the other,<br /> +But he was into the Austrian land<br /> + Dispatched by my cruel step-mother.</p> +<p>“So happily we should together have lived,<br /> + For he my whole love won;<br /> +But she wished to give me her sister’s son,<br /> + Who was liker a fiend than a man.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“I had a gallant brother once,<br /> + Sir Verner by name was he,<br /> +But he was transformed by my cruel step-dame<br /> + And driven to a strange countrie.”</p> +<p>“Hear thou, Damsel Irmindlin,<br /> + What wilt thou give me, say?<br /> +I’ll carry thee straight to thy plighted youth,<br /> + If with me thou wilt fly away.”</p> +<p>“Thou shalt from me the ruddy gold,<br /> + And the silver white receive;<br /> +If thou bear me to my Bridegroom bold,<br /> + And me from my woe relieve.”</p> +<p>“Keep thou thyself thy silver and gold,<br /> + Such gifts I do not crave;<br /> +The first son thou conceivest of him,<br /> + That, that from thee I’ll have.”</p> +<p>Then straight she took the Raven’s foot,<br /> + Laid that her white hand upon;<br /> +She swore to him by her Christian faith,<br /> + That he should have the son.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>Then took he Damsel Irmindlin,<br /> + He placed her on his back;<br /> +Then flew he over the wild sea waves<br /> + As fast as he could track.</p> +<p>It was the Verner Raven wild,<br /> + On the turret he alighted:<br /> +“Now sit we, Damsel, upon the house,<br /> + Where dwells thy Bridegroom plighted.”</p> +<p>Out came bold Sir Nilaus,<br /> + A silver cup in his hand:<br /> +“Be welcome, Damsel Irmindlin,<br /> + Here to this foreign land!</p> +<p>“What shall I give to thee, Raven wild,<br /> + That hast brought to me my Bride?<br /> +No better tidings I have heard,<br /> + Since from Denmark forth I hied.”</p> +<p>Thanks be to brave Sir Nilaus,<br /> + He kept his faith so well;<br /> +The Monday next that followed,<br /> + His bridal it befell.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>They their bridal solemnised<br /> + With glee and utmost joy;<br /> +When forty weeks away had flown<br /> + She brought into the world a boy.</p> +<p>It was the Verner Raven,<br /> + Perched on the turret tall:<br /> +“What thou did’st promise me, Irmindlin,<br /> + To thy mind I’d have thee call.”</p> +<p>So sorely she wept, and her hands she smote,<br /> + Because it a girl was not:<br /> +“Thee shall the wild Death Raven have,<br /> + That will cost thee thy life, I wot!”</p> +<p>There came flying over the house<br /> + The Raven, with looks to scare;<br /> +So sorely then wept both Maidens and Dames,<br /> + And their hands wrung in despair.</p> +<p>Sir Nilaus went, and proffered the bird<br /> + Proud castles many a one;<br /> +He proffered him even the half of his land<br /> + If he only might keep his son.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>“If I get not the little babe,<br /> + Thou sorely shall rue it straight,<br /> +Thee I limb from limb will tear<br /> + And thy kingdom devastate.”</p> +<p>She has taken the babe, and in linen white<br /> + Hath wrapped it tenderly;<br /> +“Farewell, farewell, my dearest son,<br /> + Thou owest thy death to me.”</p> +<p>Then bore they out the little babe,<br /> + On its mother’s breast that lay;<br /> +O’er the cheeks of all did big tears fall,<br /> + Such woe was and wail that day.</p> +<p>The Raven took the child in his claw,<br /> + He croaked in joyous guise;<br /> +Sir Nilaus stood and looked thereon,<br /> + Pouring forth bitter sighs.</p> +<p>Then tore he amain its right eye out,<br /> + Drank the half of its heart’s red blood;<br /> +Then he became the handsomest knight<br /> + That upon earth e’er stood.</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>He changed into the loveliest knight<br /> + That with eye man ever had seen:<br /> +It was Irmindlin’s brother himself,<br /> + Who had long enchanted been.</p> +<p>All the folk that stood thereby,<br /> + They fell upon their knees bare;<br /> +And the child it was to life restored<br /> + When to God they had made their prayer.</p> +<p>Now sitteth Dame Irmindlin so glad,<br /> + All her grief has from her hied;<br /> +For she has now both brother and son,<br /> + And sleeps by Sir Nilaus’ side.</p> +<h2><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>THE COUNT OF VENDEL’S<br /> +DAUGHTER</h2> +<p>Within a bower the womb I left,<br /> + ’Midst dames and maids who stood to aid;<br /> +They wrapped me first in silken weft,<br /> + And next in scarlet red array’d.</p> +<p>But a stepdame soon ’twas my lot to get,<br /> + And fierce and wild she proved to me;<br /> +Within a coffer me she set,<br /> + And pushed it out upon the sea.</p> +<p>By one wave I was borne to land,<br /> + And by the next away was ta’en;<br /> +But God on High, it seems, had plann’d,<br /> + That I should footing there obtain.</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>The tide it drove me to the shore,<br /> + And in its backward course retook;<br /> +Sure ne’er had child of king before<br /> + Such buffeting on sea to brook.</p> +<p>But God He help’d me, so that I<br /> + Was cast above the billows’ reach;<br /> +And soon a savage wolf drew nigh,<br /> + Was prowling on the sandy beach.</p> +<p>Soon prowling came a wolf so gray,<br /> + And me up-taking in his jaws,<br /> +He carried me with care away<br /> + Deep, deep into the forest shaws.</p> +<p>That self-same wolf he was so kind<br /> + That me beneath a tree he laid;<br /> +And then came running a nimble hind,<br /> + And me unto its lair convey’d.</p> +<p>There me for winter one she nurs’d—<br /> + She nursed me for two winters’ space.<br /> +To creep, to creep, I learnt at first,<br /> + And next I learnt to pace, to pace.</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>And I was full eight years, I wot,<br /> + Within the quiet, green retreat.<br /> +Close couched beside the hind I got<br /> + Full many a slumber calm and sweet.</p> +<p>I had clothes and shelter of no kind,<br /> + Except the linden green alone;<br /> +And, save the gentle forest hind,<br /> + Had nurse and foster-mother none.</p> +<p>But forth on courser reeking hot<br /> + There rushed a knight of bearing bold,<br /> +And he my foster-mother shot<br /> + With arrow on the verdant wold.</p> +<p>He pierced the hind with mortal wound,<br /> + And all our fond connection cut;<br /> +Then wrapped his cloak my frame around,<br /> + And me within his buckler put.</p> +<p>That self-same knight, so bold and strong,<br /> + Within his bower the foundling bred;<br /> +He tended me both well and long,<br /> + And finally his bride he made.</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>He had by long inquiry found<br /> + My father was a noble count<br /> +In Vendel’s land, who castles own’d,<br /> + And rul’d o’er many a plain and +mount.</p> +<p>The first night we together slept<br /> + Was fraught with woe of darkest hue;<br /> +Foes, whom he long at bay had kept,<br /> + Broke in on us, and him they slew.</p> +<p>The night we lay together first<br /> + A deed of horror was fulfill’d;<br /> +The bride-house door his foemen burst,<br /> + And in my arms my husband kill’d.</p> +<p>Soon, soon, my friends to counsel go,<br /> + A husband new they chose for me;<br /> +The cloister’s prior of mitred brow—<br /> + The good Sir Nilaus styl’d was he.</p> +<p>But soon as I the threshold cross’d,<br /> + The nuns could not their fury smother;<br /> +They vow’d by God and all His Host,<br /> + The Prior Nilaus was my brother.</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>Forth from the cloister him they drew,<br /> + They pelted him to death with stones;<br /> +I stood close by, and all could view,<br /> + I scarce could hear his piteous moans.</p> +<p>Once more my friends to counsel hied,<br /> + For me another spouse they get—<br /> +Son of the King of England wide<br /> + Was he, and hight Sir Engelbret.</p> +<p>Nine winters with that princely youth<br /> + I lived; of joy we had no dearth,<br /> +I tell to ye, for sooth and truth,<br /> + To ten fair sons that I gave birth.</p> +<p>But pirate crews the land beset,<br /> + No one, no one, my grief could tell;<br /> +They slew with sword Sir Engelbret,<br /> + And nine of my fair sons as well.</p> +<p>My husband and my sons with brand<br /> + They slew. How I bewail their case!<br /> +My tenth son here they from the land—<br /> + I never more shall see his face.</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>Now is my care as complicate<br /> + As golden threads which maidens spin;<br /> +God crown with bliss Sir Engelbret,<br /> + He ever was so free from sin.</p> +<p>But now I’ll take the holy vows,<br /> + Within the cloister under Ey;<br /> +I’ll ne’er become another’s spouse,<br /> + But in religion I will die.</p> +<p>But first to all the country side<br /> + I will declare my bosom’s grief;<br /> +I find, the more my grief I hide,<br /> + The less, the less, is my relief.</p> +<h2><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>THE CRUEL MOTHER-IN-LAW</h2> +<p>From his home and his country Sir Volmor should fare,<br /> +His wife he commends to his mother’s best care.</p> +<p>Proud Lyborg she sang, as the dancers she watched,<br /> +Behind stood Dame Ingeborg, malice she hatched.</p> +<p>“To live to the Fall if the luck I enjoy<br /> +Fair lady, thy beautiful voice I’ll destroy.”</p> +<p>Proud Lyborg’s fair maidens upon the floor sprang,<br /> +And all through the evening she unto them sang.</p> +<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>But alack two short summer days scarcely had +pass’d,<br /> +When in desperate sickness proud Lyborg lay fast.</p> +<p>Proud Lyborg fell sick, and lay stretched on her bed,<br /> +Then backwards and forwards Dame Ingeborg sped.</p> +<p>“Now hear me, Dame Ingeborg, dear mother mine,<br /> +Do bring me, I pray, either water or wine.”</p> +<p>“The water is frozen, and frozen the wine,<br /> +And frozen the tap in each barrel of mine.</p> +<p>“The door it is locked, and the keys are away,<br /> +But where, daughter dear, by the Saints I can’t +say.”</p> +<p>“If I can nor water nor wine from thee win,<br /> +Then open the door that the dew may rush in.</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>“Cause the door to the North to be wide open +set,<br /> +Then my feverish frame cool refreshment shall get.”</p> +<p>“The door to the South I’ll have straightway +undone,<br /> +That the hot sun may flash in thy visage upon.”</p> +<p>“O would there were one that for sweet pity’s +sake,<br /> +To my mother a message in secret would take.”</p> +<p>Then answer’d proud Lyborg’s own little +foot-boy:<br /> +“Your message in secret I’ll carry with +joy.”</p> +<p>That they were alone they with confidence thought;<br /> +Dame Ingeborg stood nigh, and every word caught.</p> +<p>The lad he upsprang on his courser so high,<br /> +He galloped as fast as the wingèd birds fly.</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>In, in came the lad, in a kirtle red drest:<br /> +“Your daughter, Dame Lyborg, in death will soon rest.</p> +<p>“She bids you to come with all possible quickness,<br /> +To live through this night she can’t hope from her +sickness.”</p> +<p>Straight unto her servants proud Mettelil says:<br /> +“My horses go fetch from the meads where they +graze.”</p> +<p>The horses they galloped, the chariot wheels turned,<br /> +Throughout the long day whilst the summer heat burned.</p> +<p>The midsummer’s sun with such fury it glows<br /> +Proud Lyborg swoons ’neath it in terrible throes.</p> +<p>A purse takes Dame Ingeborg fraught with gold treasure,<br /> +And she speeds to the hall, her heart bounding with pleasure.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>“Whosoever will gold and will bounty derive,<br /> +Let him help me to bury proud Lyborg alive.”</p> +<p>Soon as she of the gold distribution had made,<br /> +Below the black earth the fair lily they laid.</p> +<p>To the gate of the castle proud Mettelil came,<br /> +Dame Ingeborg stood there, and leaned on the same.</p> +<p>“Proud Ingeborg, hear what I say unto thee:<br /> +What hast done with my daughter? declare that to me!”</p> +<p>“But yesterday ’twas that with sorrowful mind,<br +/> +Her corse to the arms of the grave we consign’d.”</p> +<p>“Proud Ingeborg, hush thee, nor talk in this guise,<br +/> +But show me the grave where my dear daughter lies.”</p> +<p>As soon as Dame Mettelil o’er the place trod,<br /> +Proud Lyborg she screamed underneath the green sod.</p> +<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>“Whoever will gold and will silver obtain,<br /> +Let him help me to dig now with might and with main.”</p> +<p>They took up proud Lyborg, all there as she lay,<br /> +Her mother flung o’er her the scarlet array.</p> +<p>“Now tell to me, Lyborg, thou child of my heart,<br /> +Since restored to the arms of thy mother thou art,</p> +<p>“What death to thy thinking should Ingeborg thole,<br /> +For placing thee living in horrid grave-hole?”</p> +<p>“To destroy my young life it is true, she was bent,<br +/> +But let her live, mother, and let her repent.”</p> +<p>“That she go unpunished I cannot permit,<br /> +I’ll teach her what ’tis on a fire to sit.”</p> +<p>To two of her servants proud Mettelil spake:<br /> +“Do ye quickly a fire on the open field make.</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>“Do ye cut down the oak and the bonny ash-tree,<br +/> +That the fire by them fed may burn brilliant and free.”</p> +<p>Dame Ingeborg forth from the house they convey’d,<br /> +And they burnt her to dust on the fire they had made.</p> +<p>Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife,<br /> +Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife.</p> +<p>Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife,<br /> +Burnt, burnt was his mother, and flown was his wife.</p> +<p>He bade for proud Lyborg of red gold a store,<br /> +But he could the lily obtain nevermore.</p> +<h2><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>THE FAITHFUL KING OF THULE</h2> +<p>A king so true and steady<br /> + In Thule lived of old;<br /> +To him his dying lady<br /> + A goblet gave of gold.</p> +<p>He drank thereout so often,<br /> + For all his love it gained;<br /> +To tears his eyes would soften<br /> + Whene’er its juice he drained.</p> +<p>When death drew nigh, his spirit<br /> + His riches o’er he told<br /> +To him who should inherit—<br /> + But not that cup of gold.</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>By all his knights surrounded<br /> + One day he sat at dine,<br /> +In hall of fortress, founded<br /> + By ocean’s roaring brine.</p> +<p>The ancient hero rallies<br /> + With one more draught his blood,<br /> +Then casts the sacred chalice<br /> + Below him in the flood.</p> +<p>Deep, deep within the billows<br /> + He watched it as it sank;<br /> +Then, sinking on his pillows,<br /> + No drop more e’er he drank.</p> +<h2><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>THE FAIRIES’ SONG</h2> +<p>Balmy the evening air,<br /> + Nature, how bright the hue!<br /> +But, though the bloom is fair<br /> + The sense with sweets to woo,<br /> +Love, Music, Mirth, Oh give!<br /> + On these we Fairies live!</p> +<p>The glow-worm’s amorous lamp<br /> + Recalls her wandering mate;<br /> +Their revel in the swamp<br /> + Outshines the halls of State.<br /> +Then, Spirits, hither fly,<br /> + And match their revelry!</p> +<p>The Bat is on the wing,<br /> + And Gnats, what reels they run!<br /> +In wide or narrow ring,<br /> + An atmosphere of fun.<br /> +Then let us to the dance,<br /> + And feet like midges glance!</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 28--><a +name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span><span +class="smcap">London</span><br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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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 Verner Raven; The Count of Vendel's Daughter + and other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 29, 2009 [eBook #28825] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VERNER RAVEN; THE COUNT OF +VENDEL'S DAUGHTER*** + + +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. + + + + + + THE VERNER RAVEN + THE COUNT OF VENDEL'S + DAUGHTER + 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_. + + + + +THE VERNER RAVEN + + +The Raven he flies in the evening tide, + He in day dares not intrude; +Whoever is born to have evil luck + In vain may seek for good. + +Lustily flies the Verner Raven, + High o'er the wall he's flown, +For he was aware that Irmindlin fair + Sate in her bower alone. + +He southward flew, and he northward flew, + He flew high up in the cloud; +And he beheld May Irmindlin + Who sorrowing sate and sew'd. + +"Now hear me, little Irmindlin, + Why weep in this piteous way? +For father or mother, or is it for brother, + That adown thy cheek tears stray?" + +It was Damsel Irmindlin, + Swift out of the window looked she: +"O who is he that will comfort me, + And list to my misery? + +"Hear thou, wild Raven, bird of Death, + Fly thou hither down to me; +And all my trouble and all my care + I'll straight relate to thee. + +"My father gave me the son of a king, + We were fitted the one for the other, +But he was into the Austrian land + Dispatched by my cruel step-mother. + +"So happily we should together have lived, + For he my whole love won; +But she wished to give me her sister's son, + Who was liker a fiend than a man. + +"I had a gallant brother once, + Sir Verner by name was he, +But he was transformed by my cruel step-dame + And driven to a strange countrie." + +"Hear thou, Damsel Irmindlin, + What wilt thou give me, say? +I'll carry thee straight to thy plighted youth, + If with me thou wilt fly away." + +"Thou shalt from me the ruddy gold, + And the silver white receive; +If thou bear me to my Bridegroom bold, + And me from my woe relieve." + +"Keep thou thyself thy silver and gold, + Such gifts I do not crave; +The first son thou conceivest of him, + That, that from thee I'll have." + +Then straight she took the Raven's foot, + Laid that her white hand upon; +She swore to him by her Christian faith, + That he should have the son. + +Then took he Damsel Irmindlin, + He placed her on his back; +Then flew he over the wild sea waves + As fast as he could track. + +It was the Verner Raven wild, + On the turret he alighted: +"Now sit we, Damsel, upon the house, + Where dwells thy Bridegroom plighted." + +Out came bold Sir Nilaus, + A silver cup in his hand: +"Be welcome, Damsel Irmindlin, + Here to this foreign land! + +"What shall I give to thee, Raven wild, + That hast brought to me my Bride? +No better tidings I have heard, + Since from Denmark forth I hied." + +Thanks be to brave Sir Nilaus, + He kept his faith so well; +The Monday next that followed, + His bridal it befell. + +They their bridal solemnised + With glee and utmost joy; +When forty weeks away had flown + She brought into the world a boy. + +It was the Verner Raven, + Perched on the turret tall: +"What thou did'st promise me, Irmindlin, + To thy mind I'd have thee call." + +So sorely she wept, and her hands she smote, + Because it a girl was not: +"Thee shall the wild Death Raven have, + That will cost thee thy life, I wot!" + +There came flying over the house + The Raven, with looks to scare; +So sorely then wept both Maidens and Dames, + And their hands wrung in despair. + +Sir Nilaus went, and proffered the bird + Proud castles many a one; +He proffered him even the half of his land + If he only might keep his son. + +"If I get not the little babe, + Thou sorely shall rue it straight, +Thee I limb from limb will tear + And thy kingdom devastate." + +She has taken the babe, and in linen white + Hath wrapped it tenderly; +"Farewell, farewell, my dearest son, + Thou owest thy death to me." + +Then bore they out the little babe, + On its mother's breast that lay; +O'er the cheeks of all did big tears fall, + Such woe was and wail that day. + +The Raven took the child in his claw, + He croaked in joyous guise; +Sir Nilaus stood and looked thereon, + Pouring forth bitter sighs. + +Then tore he amain its right eye out, + Drank the half of its heart's red blood; +Then he became the handsomest knight + That upon earth e'er stood. + +He changed into the loveliest knight + That with eye man ever had seen: +It was Irmindlin's brother himself, + Who had long enchanted been. + +All the folk that stood thereby, + They fell upon their knees bare; +And the child it was to life restored + When to God they had made their prayer. + +Now sitteth Dame Irmindlin so glad, + All her grief has from her hied; +For she has now both brother and son, + And sleeps by Sir Nilaus' side. + + + + +THE COUNT OF VENDEL'S +DAUGHTER + + +Within a bower the womb I left, + 'Midst dames and maids who stood to aid; +They wrapped me first in silken weft, + And next in scarlet red array'd. + +But a stepdame soon 'twas my lot to get, + And fierce and wild she proved to me; +Within a coffer me she set, + And pushed it out upon the sea. + +By one wave I was borne to land, + And by the next away was ta'en; +But God on High, it seems, had plann'd, + That I should footing there obtain. + +The tide it drove me to the shore, + And in its backward course retook; +Sure ne'er had child of king before + Such buffeting on sea to brook. + +But God He help'd me, so that I + Was cast above the billows' reach; +And soon a savage wolf drew nigh, + Was prowling on the sandy beach. + +Soon prowling came a wolf so gray, + And me up-taking in his jaws, +He carried me with care away + Deep, deep into the forest shaws. + +That self-same wolf he was so kind + That me beneath a tree he laid; +And then came running a nimble hind, + And me unto its lair convey'd. + +There me for winter one she nurs'd-- + She nursed me for two winters' space. +To creep, to creep, I learnt at first, + And next I learnt to pace, to pace. + +And I was full eight years, I wot, + Within the quiet, green retreat. +Close couched beside the hind I got + Full many a slumber calm and sweet. + +I had clothes and shelter of no kind, + Except the linden green alone; +And, save the gentle forest hind, + Had nurse and foster-mother none. + +But forth on courser reeking hot + There rushed a knight of bearing bold, +And he my foster-mother shot + With arrow on the verdant wold. + +He pierced the hind with mortal wound, + And all our fond connection cut; +Then wrapped his cloak my frame around, + And me within his buckler put. + +That self-same knight, so bold and strong, + Within his bower the foundling bred; +He tended me both well and long, + And finally his bride he made. + +He had by long inquiry found + My father was a noble count +In Vendel's land, who castles own'd, + And rul'd o'er many a plain and mount. + +The first night we together slept + Was fraught with woe of darkest hue; +Foes, whom he long at bay had kept, + Broke in on us, and him they slew. + +The night we lay together first + A deed of horror was fulfill'd; +The bride-house door his foemen burst, + And in my arms my husband kill'd. + +Soon, soon, my friends to counsel go, + A husband new they chose for me; +The cloister's prior of mitred brow-- + The good Sir Nilaus styl'd was he. + +But soon as I the threshold cross'd, + The nuns could not their fury smother; +They vow'd by God and all His Host, + The Prior Nilaus was my brother. + +Forth from the cloister him they drew, + They pelted him to death with stones; +I stood close by, and all could view, + I scarce could hear his piteous moans. + +Once more my friends to counsel hied, + For me another spouse they get-- +Son of the King of England wide + Was he, and hight Sir Engelbret. + +Nine winters with that princely youth + I lived; of joy we had no dearth, +I tell to ye, for sooth and truth, + To ten fair sons that I gave birth. + +But pirate crews the land beset, + No one, no one, my grief could tell; +They slew with sword Sir Engelbret, + And nine of my fair sons as well. + +My husband and my sons with brand + They slew. How I bewail their case! +My tenth son here they from the land-- + I never more shall see his face. + +Now is my care as complicate + As golden threads which maidens spin; +God crown with bliss Sir Engelbret, + He ever was so free from sin. + +But now I'll take the holy vows, + Within the cloister under Ey; +I'll ne'er become another's spouse, + But in religion I will die. + +But first to all the country side + I will declare my bosom's grief; +I find, the more my grief I hide, + The less, the less, is my relief. + + + + +THE CRUEL MOTHER-IN-LAW + + +From his home and his country Sir Volmor should fare, +His wife he commends to his mother's best care. + +Proud Lyborg she sang, as the dancers she watched, +Behind stood Dame Ingeborg, malice she hatched. + +"To live to the Fall if the luck I enjoy +Fair lady, thy beautiful voice I'll destroy." + +Proud Lyborg's fair maidens upon the floor sprang, +And all through the evening she unto them sang. + +But alack two short summer days scarcely had pass'd, +When in desperate sickness proud Lyborg lay fast. + +Proud Lyborg fell sick, and lay stretched on her bed, +Then backwards and forwards Dame Ingeborg sped. + +"Now hear me, Dame Ingeborg, dear mother mine, +Do bring me, I pray, either water or wine." + +"The water is frozen, and frozen the wine, +And frozen the tap in each barrel of mine. + +"The door it is locked, and the keys are away, +But where, daughter dear, by the Saints I can't say." + +"If I can nor water nor wine from thee win, +Then open the door that the dew may rush in. + +"Cause the door to the North to be wide open set, +Then my feverish frame cool refreshment shall get." + +"The door to the South I'll have straightway undone, +That the hot sun may flash in thy visage upon." + +"O would there were one that for sweet pity's sake, +To my mother a message in secret would take." + +Then answer'd proud Lyborg's own little foot-boy: +"Your message in secret I'll carry with joy." + +That they were alone they with confidence thought; +Dame Ingeborg stood nigh, and every word caught. + +The lad he upsprang on his courser so high, +He galloped as fast as the winged birds fly. + +In, in came the lad, in a kirtle red drest: +"Your daughter, Dame Lyborg, in death will soon rest. + +"She bids you to come with all possible quickness, +To live through this night she can't hope from her sickness." + +Straight unto her servants proud Mettelil says: +"My horses go fetch from the meads where they graze." + +The horses they galloped, the chariot wheels turned, +Throughout the long day whilst the summer heat burned. + +The midsummer's sun with such fury it glows +Proud Lyborg swoons 'neath it in terrible throes. + +A purse takes Dame Ingeborg fraught with gold treasure, +And she speeds to the hall, her heart bounding with pleasure. + +"Whosoever will gold and will bounty derive, +Let him help me to bury proud Lyborg alive." + +Soon as she of the gold distribution had made, +Below the black earth the fair lily they laid. + +To the gate of the castle proud Mettelil came, +Dame Ingeborg stood there, and leaned on the same. + +"Proud Ingeborg, hear what I say unto thee: +What hast done with my daughter? declare that to me!" + +"But yesterday 'twas that with sorrowful mind, +Her corse to the arms of the grave we consign'd." + +"Proud Ingeborg, hush thee, nor talk in this guise, +But show me the grave where my dear daughter lies." + +As soon as Dame Mettelil o'er the place trod, +Proud Lyborg she screamed underneath the green sod. + +"Whoever will gold and will silver obtain, +Let him help me to dig now with might and with main." + +They took up proud Lyborg, all there as she lay, +Her mother flung o'er her the scarlet array. + +"Now tell to me, Lyborg, thou child of my heart, +Since restored to the arms of thy mother thou art, + +"What death to thy thinking should Ingeborg thole, +For placing thee living in horrid grave-hole?" + +"To destroy my young life it is true, she was bent, +But let her live, mother, and let her repent." + +"That she go unpunished I cannot permit, +I'll teach her what 'tis on a fire to sit." + +To two of her servants proud Mettelil spake: +"Do ye quickly a fire on the open field make. + +"Do ye cut down the oak and the bonny ash-tree, +That the fire by them fed may burn brilliant and free." + +Dame Ingeborg forth from the house they convey'd, +And they burnt her to dust on the fire they had made. + +Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife, +Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife. + +Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife, +Burnt, burnt was his mother, and flown was his wife. + +He bade for proud Lyborg of red gold a store, +But he could the lily obtain nevermore. + + + + +THE FAITHFUL KING OF THULE + + +A king so true and steady + In Thule lived of old; +To him his dying lady + A goblet gave of gold. + +He drank thereout so often, + For all his love it gained; +To tears his eyes would soften + Whene'er its juice he drained. + +When death drew nigh, his spirit + His riches o'er he told +To him who should inherit-- + But not that cup of gold. + +By all his knights surrounded + One day he sat at dine, +In hall of fortress, founded + By ocean's roaring brine. + +The ancient hero rallies + With one more draught his blood, +Then casts the sacred chalice + Below him in the flood. + +Deep, deep within the billows + He watched it as it sank; +Then, sinking on his pillows, + No drop more e'er he drank. + + + + +THE FAIRIES' SONG + + +Balmy the evening air, + Nature, how bright the hue! +But, though the bloom is fair + The sense with sweets to woo, +Love, Music, Mirth, Oh give! + On these we Fairies live! + +The glow-worm's amorous lamp + Recalls her wandering mate; +Their revel in the swamp + Outshines the halls of State. +Then, Spirits, hither fly, + And match their revelry! + +The Bat is on the wing, + And Gnats, what reels they run! +In wide or narrow ring, + An atmosphere of fun. +Then let us to the dance, + And feet like midges glance! + + * * * * * + + LONDON + Printed for THOMAS J. 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