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    Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads
    Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads
    Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads
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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 4, 2022
    ISBN8596547206668
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      Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads - DigiCat

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      Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads

      EAN 8596547206668

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      QUEEN BERNGERD

      DAME MARTHA’S FOUNTAIN

      THE BARD AND THE DREAMS

      KING OLUF THE SAINT

      TO SCRIBBLERS [30]

      TO A CONCEITED WOMAN

      QUEEN BERNGERD

      Table of Contents

      Long ere the Sun the heaven arrayed,

      For her morning gift her Lord she prayed:

      "Give me Samsoe to have and to hold,

      And from every maiden a crown of gold."

      Woe befall her, Berngerd.

      The King he answered Berngerd thus:

      "Madam, crave something less of us,

      For many a maid lives ’neath our sway

      To ’scape from death could the like not pay."

      Woe

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