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

the count of vendel’s

daughter

and other ballads

by GEORGE BORROW

by

London: printed for private circulation 1913

London

printed for private circulation

p. 4Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

p. 4

p. 5THE VERNER RAVEN

p. 5

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.

p. 6“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?”

p. 6

It was Damsel Irmindlin, Swift out of the window looked she: “O who is he that will comfort me,  

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