Ulf Van Yern - and Other Ballads

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ulf Van Yern, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, Translated by George Borrow 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 re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads Editor: Thomas J. Wise Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27405] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ULF VAN YERN*** Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made. ULF VAN YERN and other ballads by GEORGE BORROW London: printed for private circulation 1913 p. 4Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter. p. 5ULF VAN YERN It was youthful Ulf Van Yern Goes before the King to stand: “To avenge my father’s death Lend me warriors of thy band.” “Of my kemps I’ll lend thee them Who to follow thee consent; Ask’st thou Vidrik Verlandson Thou wilt further thy intent. “I will lend thee of my men, Thou shalt have the very flower; Vidrik, and stark Diderik, Many kemps have felt their power.