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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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