ollie Charane and Other Ballads_ in the Library of
the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.

[Picture: Manuscript of The Danes of Yore]

(56) [GRIMHILD'S VENGEANCE: 1913]

Grimhild's Vengeance / Three Ballads / By / George Borrow / Edited / With
an Introduction / By / Edmund Gosse, C. B. / London: / Printed for
Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 40; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with a note regarding the
American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3-4;
_Introduction_ pp. 5-14; and text of the three _Ballads_ pp. 15-40. The
head-line is _Grimhild's Vengeance_ throughout, upon both sides of the
page. At the foot of p. 40 is the following imprint: "_London_: /
_Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to
Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), and
B and C (two sheets, each eight leaves), each inset within the other.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

PAGE

GRIMHILD'S VENGEANCE. SONG THE FIRST. [_It was the 15
proud Dame Grimhild Prepares the mead and beer_]

A reduced facsimile of page 2 of the 1854 Manuscript of
this _Song_ faces the present page.

GRIMHILD'S VENGEANCE. SONG THE SECOND. [_It was the 24
proud Dame Grimhild The wine with spices blends_]

GRIMHILD'S VENGEANCE. SONG THE THIRD. [_O_, _where will 32
ye find kempions So bold and strong of hand_]

The Introduction furnished by Mr. Edmund Gosse to _Grimhild's Vengeance_
is undoubtedly by far the most illuminating and important contribution
yet made to the critical study of Borrow's Ballads, a study which has
hitherto been both meagre and inadequate. Not only does Mr. Gosse handle
the three _Songs_ particularly before him, and make clear the
relationship they bear to each other, but he deals with the whole subject
of the origin of Borrow's Scandinavian Ballads, and traces fully and
precisely the immediate source from which their author derived them. One
of Borrow's most vivid records Mr. Gosse calls into question, and proves
indisputably that it must