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Grimhild's Vengence: Three ballads

By George Borrow

2021-09-16 17:08:09

The modern poetical literature of Denmark opens with a collection of epical and lyrical poems from the Middle Ages, which are loosely connected under the title of Kjæmpeviser or Heroic Ballads.  Of these the latest scholarship re ... Read more

The modern poetical literature of Denmark opens with a collection of epical and lyrical poems from the Middle Ages, which are loosely connected under the title of Kjæmpeviser or Heroic Ballads.  Of these the latest scholarship recognises nearly 500, but in the time of Borrow the number did not much exceed 200.  These ballads deal with half-historic events, which are so completely masked by fantastic, supernatural and incoherent imagery that their positive relation to history can rarely be discovered.

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File size77.986 KB
Print pages30
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1500459864
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George Borrow
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George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel books based on his personal experiences in Europe. During his travels, he developed a close affinity wi...

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