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 MERMAID’S PROPHECY and other songs relating to queen dagmar

the

and other

songs relating to queen dagmar

by GEORGE BORROW

by

London: printed for private circulation 1913

London

printed for private circulation

p. 5SONGS RELATING TO QUEEN DAGMAR

p. 5

I. KING VALDEMAR’S WOOING.

Valdemar King and Sir Strange bold At table sat one day, So many a word ’twixt them there passed In amicable way.

“Hear Strange, hear! thou for a time Thy native land must leave; Thou shalt away to Bohemia far My young bride to receive.”

Then answered Strange Ebbesen, To answer he was not slow: “Who shall attend me of thy liegemen, If I to Bohemia go?”

p. 6“Do thou take with thee young Lord Limbek, Nor leave Olaf Lukke behind; Take rich Peter Glob, and whomsoe’er Shall best please thine own mind.

p. 6

“Take Sealand’s Bishop, none more learned There dwelleth North nor South, And take Sir Albert of Eskilsea, There’s eloquence in his mouth.”

It was the young Sir Strange bold, He down to the sea shore wends, And him King Valdemar 

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