George Borrow

Romantic Ballads George Borrow

Excerpt from Romantic Ballads: Translated From the Danish; And Miscellaneous Pieces
The ballads in this volume are translated from the Works of Oehlenslaeger, (a poet who is yet living, and who stands high in the estimation of his countrymen, ) and from the Kiaempe Viser, a collection of old songs, celebrating the actions of the ancient heroes of Scandinavia.
The old Danish poets were, for the most part, extremely rude in their versification. Their stanzas of four or two lines have not the full rhyme of vowel and consonant, but merely what the Spaniards call the "assonante," or vowel rhyme, and attention seldom seems to have been paid to the number of feet on which the lines moved along.
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