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Tord of Hafsborough, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow
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Title: Tord of Hafsborough
and Other Ballads
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Thomas Wise
Release Date: May 29, 2009 [eBook #28985]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TORD OF HAFSBOROUGH***
Transcribed from the 1914 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
TORD OF HAFSBOROUGH
and other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1914
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. for Clement Shorter.
TORD OF HAFSBOROUGH
It was Tord of Hafsborough,
O’er the verdant wold would ride,
And there he lost his hammer of gold,
’Twas lost for so long a tide.
It was Tord of Hafsborough,
His brother he addressed:
"Thou shalt away to the Norland hills,
My hammer be thy quest."
It was Lokke Leyemand,
A feather robe o’er him drew;
And away to the Norland mountains high
O’er the briny sea he flew.
In the midst of the castle yard
He smoothèd his array;
Then straight he took to the castle hall,
To the carlish Count his way.
"Be welcome, Lokke Leyemand,
Be welcome my castle to;
Say! how fare things in Hafsborough?
With the land how does it go?"
"O, well fare things in Hafsborough,
And well in the country all;
Tord has his golden hammer lost,
Therefore seek I your hall."
"Tord he shall not his hammer get,
Thou back may’st carry
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