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diff --git a/28830.txt b/28830.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94a1862 --- /dev/null +++ b/28830.txt @@ -0,0 +1,860 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Songs of Ranild, by Anonymous, Edited by +Thomas 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: The Songs of Ranild + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 15, 2009 [eBook #28830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONGS OF RANILD*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + THE SONGS OF RANILD + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + + + +THE SONGS OF RANILD. + + +SONG THE FIRST. + + +Up Riber's street the dance they ply, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +There dance the knights most merrily, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +On Riber's bridge the dance it goes, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +There dance the knights in scollop'd shoes, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +'Twas Riber Wolf the dance who led, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +In faith to his King he had been bred, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +And next him danced the Tage Mouse, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +Who Seneschal was in Ribe house, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +And then danced bold Sir Saltensee, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +Followed by wealthy kinsmen three, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +The noble Limbekk dances next, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +Whose power the King had often vext, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +After him danced the Byrge Green, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +Then many a knight of handsome mien, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +And then came dancing Hanke Kann, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +His Lady followed, good Dame Ann, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +The next that came was the Ridder Rank, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +His Lady behind him, Berngard Blank, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +And then the high Volravn came, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +His wife behind, who has no name, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +And then came dancing Sir Iver Helt, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +Who followed his sovereign over the Belt, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +Long stood the Ranild Lang apart, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +Ere he to join the dance had heart, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +"And were it not for my lovely hair, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +In that brave dance I'd have a share, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +"But for my cheeks so rosy red, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +The foremost in that dance I'd tread," + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +Then Ranild Lang to dance began, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +And a ditty sang as he led the van, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +Sweet he warbled, light he sprang, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +After him every warrior sang, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +Then up the Spendel Sko arose, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +And on Ranild Lang her troth bestows, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +With silk was snooded her hair of gold, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +She danced before them free and bold, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +And into the Castle they dance their way, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +With drawn swords 'neath their scarlet array. + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + +Never, I ween, was a braver dance, + _The Castle's won_, _the Castle's won_! +It wins the Castle of Rosenkrands, + _For young King Erik Erikson_. + + + + SONG THE SECOND. + + +To saddle his courser Ranild cried: + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +"To visit the rich Greve I will ride, + Though banish'd from the land we be." + +To the house came Ranild spurring hard, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +There stood the Greve arrayed in mard, + Though banish'd from the land we be. + +"Hail, hail, Sir Greve, arrayed so fine! + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +I want my bride, the little Kirstine, + Though banish'd from the land I be." + +Then up and spoke her mother dear: + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +"Thou hast no bride, Sir Ranild, here, + For banish'd from the land ye be." + +"O if I can't my little bride get, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +On fire your house and your gear I'll set, + Though banish'd from the land I be." + +"O rather than ruin us in thy wrath, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +Receive thy bride and ride thy path, + Though banish'd from the land ye be." + +They o'er her threw the blue cloak with speed, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +And placed her upon Sir Ranild's steed, + Though banish'd from the land he be. + +They had for their bridal bed alone, + _For thus the tale was told to ne_-- +The holt, the field, and the mead new mown, + For banish'd from the land they be. + +"The forest can hear, and the mead can view, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +We here must live as outlaws do, + For banish'd from the land we be." + +"Hadst thou not helped the King to slay, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +In peace at home we now might stay, + But banish'd from the land we be." + +He struck her a blow the table o'er, + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +"Should'st guard thy tongue, child, guests before, + Though banish'd from the land we be." + +He struck her on her face so fair: + _For thus the tale was told to me_-- +"In Erik's death I had no share, + Though banished from the land I be." + + + +SONG THE THIRD. + + +So wide around the tidings bound + That Ranild's prisoner taken; +Had he been aware how it would fare + He had not Hielm forsaken. +The death of woe, spaed long ago, + They'll wreak on him now, I reckon. + +Into the hall steps Ranild tall, + And withouten trepidation; +Bids his Lord good bye, and the chivalry + Who have at court their station. +O, Lord Christ! be each man kept free + From misfortune and tribulation. + +"In mind dost bear, King Erik dear, + On whom may blessings pour, +That service I wrought in your father's court, + Of all his swains the flower? +Both in and out I've borne you about + In sunshine and in shower." + +"Yes, service you wrought in my father's court, + For money and clothes imparted, +And betrayed his life to the foeman's knife, + Like a monster treacherous hearted. +And as sure as now the crown's on my brow, + To the wheel thou shalt be carted." + +"Hew off, I intreat, my hands and feet, + Most willingly them I proffer; +My eyes blood red tear out of my head, + And the worst death let me suffer; +But all the pains that Ranild gains + For his treason scarce enough are." + +"Thine eyeballs twain thou may'st retain, + And thy hands and feet unriven; +But thou thy breath shalt yield to a death + The cruellest under heaven; +And be it known, for my father alone + This punishment is given." + +Ranild they brought from Roskild out, + He wrung his hands with sorrow; +And the women all salt tears let fall, + Who lived in that ancient borough. +The wretched wight wished all good night, + And a light heart on the morrow. + +Ranild they bore the town before, + The wheel his sight saluted: +"Christ guard each noble from such like trouble," + In agony he shouted, +"If at Hielm I'd staid it had better sped, + Nor to that had I been devoted. + +"Would God would send a trusty friend, + Who would my message carry, +To Kirstine fair, who sits in care, + To Ranild true to tarry. +O Christ help all my babies small, + And bless my bosom's dearie! + +"Ye Christian folk, whom, with dying look, + On the mead I am discerning, +A pater pray for my soul, to stay + Of God the anger burning; +That me He receive this very eve + To the joys for which I'm yearning." + + + + +CHILD STIG AND CHILD FINDAL + + +Child Stig and Child Findal two brothers were they, +There ne'er were two brothers more gallant and gay. + +Child Stig serves the Dane King in bower and hall, +High dames brushed his hair, and fair maidens withal. + +Child Stig by the board of the Monarch he stood, +To him little Kirstin was cruel of mood. + +"Full seven years I have been Lord of the Rune, +Of its power I'll make trial this same afternoon." + +With his right hand he skinked the wine and the mead +And cast with his left the Rune characters dread. + +To cast them on Kirstin the gallant Stig meant, +But under the dress of Rigissa they went. + +O pallid as ashes the gallant Stig grew, +And red as the blood was Rigissa to view. + +The gallant Child Stig placed his cap on his head, +And unto his foster dame's chamber he sped. + +"Dear Foster dame, give me some counsel, I pray, +How I may escape from this palace away. + +"To cast the Rune letters at Kirstin I meant, +But under the dress of Rigissa they went. + +"I will mount my good courser so true and so tried, +And away to the ends of the earth I will ride." + +Said she: "Shouldst thou travel all Finland around, +This night at thy couch will Rigissa be found. + +"And e'en shouldst thou ride to the earth's farthest land, +This night by thy couch she will certainly stand. + +"But, Child Stig, I advise thee, call up a good heart, +And home to thy bed and thy slumbers depart. + +"She'll tap on the door of thy chamber, I ween, +But still do thou keep, let her in by no mean. + +"But ten fingers has she, so tiny and small, +And with them from the door she will pick the nails all. + +"She will set herself down on the side of thy bed, +And play with the long yellow locks of thy head. + +"So fondly she'll stroke thy fair cheek in the dark, +But do thou remain as thou wert stiff and stark. + +"She'll kiss thee full oft on thy lips rosy red, +But do thou lie still as were life from thee fled." + +Child Stig he gave ear to his foster dame's rede, +And away to his bed he betook him with speed. + +'Twas late in the even, and down fell the dew, +Rigissa flung o'er her her mantle of blue. + +The lovely maid she her blue mantle put on, +And unto the chamber of Stig she is gone. + +On the door of the chamber begins she to knock: +"Arise, O Child Stig, and thy chamber unlock." + +"At the Ting to appear, I have summoned no wight, +And none I'll admit to my chamber at night." + +She's fingers, ten fingers, so tiny and small, +And out of the door she has picked the nails all. + +Fifteen iron nails, and a big stud of brass, +Then into the chamber Rigissa could pass. + +She sat herself down by the side of the bed, +And played with the locks of the young gallant's head. + +She kissed him full oft on his mouth rosy red, +But still he remained as were life from him fled. + +In her arms the young Stig she so fondly did press, +But quiet he lay nor returned her caress. + +Child Stig he awoke, and cast up his eyes: +"Who wakes me from sleep in this manner?" he cries. + +"If I cannot, Rigissa, my rest for thee take, +To the Dane King, thy brother, complaint I will make." + +"O thou may'st complain if thou feelest inclin'd, +But thou art the man on whom standeth my mind." + +The very next morning ere high was the sun, +Child Stig to complain to the Dane King is gone. + +"Dear Lord, I have this to complain of to thee, +For thy sister at night I at rest cannot be." + +The King in displeasure his footboy address'd: +"To come to my presence my sister request." + +Rigissa came in, 'fore the table stood she: +"What mean'st thou, O brother, by sending for me?" + +"O here is a knight doth complaint of thee make, +He cannot at night his repose for thee take." + +"It is but God's truth that his chamber I sought, +But nothing unseemly betwixt us was wrought. + +"Steel, glowing steel, I will bear on my hand, +And of crime with Child Stig I acquitted will stand." + +Long stood the Dane King, full of thought was his head: +"With no better man I my sister can wed." + +All hearts in the Dane King's palace were gay, +The Dane King has given his sister away. + +There was pleasure and smiling in every look, +For his beloved Lady Child Stig the maid took. + +Child Stig he brews ale, and the wine doth prepare, +He the Dane King invites to his castle so fair. + +The King and his gallant men all biddeth he, +And the Queen of the Danes of the party should be. + +Outspake the fair Queen, on her steed as she rode: +"Methinks I behold of Child Stig the abode." + +And thereto the page at her bridle replied: +"Of Stig the brave castle is known far and wide. + +"Within with the richest of gold it is graced, +Without with white silver 'tis all over cased." + +And, lo, when the gate of the castle they gained, +Five shaggy white bears stood before it enchained. + +And when in procession they entered the court, +Within it the hart and the roebuck did sport. + +In the midst of the court was a silver trough long, +Of birds and of animals round it a throng. + +Above spread the poplar and linden their shade, +In its coolness the hart and the little hind played. + +An apartment they entered, full lofty and fair, +Was crowded with women so courtly of air. + +All of red amber composed was the floor, +The roof with gilt letters was written all o'er. + +The table it was of the red shining gold +The napkin of Agerwool rare to behold. + +The walls were constructed of fair marble stone, +The beams of the roof of the whitest whale bone. + +On the floor they are dancing with rapture so high, +Tall, slender, and stately Sir Stig dances by. + +Straight and slim as a sapling Child Stig dances up, +In each hand holding a fair silver cup. + +Child Stig to the health of his bonny bride quaffed, +And forest and meadow delightedly laughed. + +The forest it bloomed, the boughs leaves put forth-- +She excels every damsel in beauty and worth. + +Late in the evening the mist it descends, +Child Stig his young bride to her chamber attends. + +Now gallant Child Stig has o'ercome his distress, +He sleeps in the arm of a lovely princess. + +And Damsel Rigissa is free from her fright, +By the side of Child Stig she reposes each night. + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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