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    Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads
    Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads
    Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads
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    Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads

    By George Henry Borrow and Thomas James Wise

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads - George Henry Borrow

      Marsk Stig's Daughters, by George Borrow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Marsk Stig's Daughters, by George Borrow,

      Edited by Thomas J. Wise

      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

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      Title: Marsk Stig's Daughters

      and other Songs and Ballads

      Translator: George Borrow

      Editor: Thomas J. Wise

      Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26832]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARSK STIG'S DAUGHTERS***

      Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      MARSK STIG’S

      DAUGHTERS

      and other

      SONGS AND BALLADS

      by

      GEORGE BORROW

      London:

      printed for private circulation

      1913

      CONTENTS

      MARSK STIG’S DAUGHTERS

      Two daughters fair the Marshal had,

      O grievous was their fate and sad.

      The eldest she took her sister’s hand

      And away they went to Sweden’s land.

      Home from the Stevn King Byrgye rode;

      Up to him Marsk

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