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Title: The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne
a Ballad

Author: Anonymous

Editor: Thomas J. Wise

Release Date: May 14, 2009 [eBook #28818]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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UNGERSWAYNE***

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.

THE GIANT OF BERN
AND ORM UNGERSWAYNE
A BALLAD

BY
GEORGE BORROW

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1913

THE GIANT OF BERN
AND ORM UNGERSWAYNE

It was the lofty Jutt of Bern
O'er all the walls he grew;
He was mad and ne'er at rest,
To tame him no one knew.

He was mad and ne'er at rest,
No lord could hold him in;
If he had long in Denmark stayed
Much damage there had been.

It was the lofty Jutt of Bern
Bound to his side his glaive,
And away to the monarch's house he rode
With the knights a fray to have.

Now goes the lofty Jutt of Bern
Before the King to stand:
"Thou shalt to me thy daughter give,
And a brief for half thy land.

"Here as thou sitt'st at thy wide board,
Hail Monarch of the Danes!
Thou shalt to me thy daughter give,
And the half of thy domains.

"Thou shalt to me thy daughter give,
And divide with me thy land,
Or thou shalt find a kempion good
In the ring 'gainst me to stand."

"O thou shalt ne'er my daughter get,
Nor a brief for half my land,
I'll quickly find a kempion good
Shall fight thee hand to hand."

Then strode the Monarch of the Danes
To his castle hall amain:
"Now which of ye, my courtiers, will
The lovely Damsel gain?

"Here sit ye