Niels Ebbesen, and Germand Gladenswayne: Two Ballads

By Good Press

The following book contains two poems inspired by two real-life figures: Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne. Ebbesen was a Danish squire and national hero, known for his killing of Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg. Gladenswayne was a Danish folk hero, born from a royal couple who was fated to die in the hands of a monster.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066146276

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Niels Ebbesen, and Germand Gladenswayne: Two Ballads

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066146276

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NIELS EBBESEN and GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE

NIELS EBBESEN.

GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE

NIELS EBBESEN

and

GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE

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TWO BALLADS

by

GEORGE BORROW

London:

printed for private circulation

1913

Copyright in the United States of America

by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

NIELS EBBESEN.

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All his men the Count collects,

And from Slesvig marched away;

Never such as host was seen

Or before or since that day.

Into Denmark marched the Count,

Followed by so fair a band;

Banners twenty-four they bore,

Power like theirs might none withstand.

Gert the Count to Randers rode,

To bad counsel lending ear;

For from old it stood foretold,

He should