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    Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads
    Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads
    Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads
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    Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads

    By George Henry Borrow and Thomas James Wise

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads

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      Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow

      Alf the Freebooter, by Thomas J. Wise

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Alf the Freebooter, Edited by Thomas J. Wise,

      Translated by George Borrow

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      Title: Alf the Freebooter

      Little Danneved and Swayne Trost and other Ballads

      Editor: Thomas J. Wise

      Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26787]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALF THE FREEBOOTER***

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

      ALF THE FREEBOOTER

      LITTLE DANNEVED AND

      SWAYNE TROST

      and other ballads

      by

      GEORGE BORROW

      London:

      printed for private circulation

      1913

      Copyright in the United States of America

      by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

      SIR ALF THE FREEBOOTER

      Song the First

      Sir Alf he is an Atheling,

      Both at Stevn and at Ting. [5]

      Know ye little Alf?

      Alf he builds a vessel stout,

      For he will rove and sail about.

      Alf he builds a vessel high,

      The trade of pirate he will try.

      He draws on the sand a circle mark,

      And with a bound he gained the bark.

      Upon the prow Alf foremost stood,

      And Copenhagen’s koggers view’d.

      O’er the wide sea he flung a look,

      He knew the course the vessels took.

      "There koggers nine salute mine eyes,

      All, all they bear shall be my prize."

      Alone into a boat he goes,

      And briskly to the koggers rows.

      "Well met, ye Courtmen, clad in mail

      Unto what haven do ye sail?"

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