y welding together several
shorter ballads[1]; and certainly the _Ballad of Arngrim's Sons_
suggests that at least two distinct ballads have been run into one,
especially when we compare the two varying versions of Svabo and
Hammershaimb. Against this, however, we have to place the fact that
something of the same invertebrate impression is given by the _Saga
of Hervoer and Heithrek_, on which these ballads are ultimately based.
Even if we assume a composite origin for the _Ballad of Arngrim's
Sons_, there is no evidence that any portion of it was based on the
short _Ballad of Hjalmar and Angantyr_, while the difference of metre
diminishes the probability of a connection.

The air and refrain to this ballad are given on p. 124 of Thuren's
_Folkesangen paa Faeroerne_.

[Footnote 1: _Lied und Epos_ (Dortmund, 1905), p. 41 ff.]

_The Ballad of Hjalmar and Angantyr_

KIRKJUBO.

[Illustration]

[Music quarter note=112]

[Lyric:
Bondin | undir | eikini | byr, || Vael | bornir |
menn |Eigir hann | ellivu | synir | dyr! || Arngrims
synir a | Bjarn | londum | ber- | jast vieth | Sams | oy. ||]

THE BALLAD OF HJALMAR AND ANGANTYR

1. A man lived up in a high oak-tree,
Refrain:-- _Ye well-born men!_--
Eleven warlike sons had he.
Refrain:-- _Arngrim's Sons from Africa_,
_They fought, they fought on Samso._

2. He had eleven sons so dear,--
The champions Hjalmar and Angantyr.

3. A ship, a ship did these warriors man,
And swift 'fore the wind was the course she ran.

4. They hoisted their sail to the mast so high:
They had faith in their strength and their valiancy.

5. Their anchor they cast in the white, white sand.
Hjalmar hastily sprang to the land.

6. Their anchor they cast in the white, white sand.
And Angantyr eagerly sprang on the strand.

7. Angantyr eagerly sprang on the strand.
Up to his knees he sank in the sand.

8. "I drew my hose from my legs so bare
To hide the sand from my lady fair!"

9. In the garden they busked them in cloaks of skin,
And so went up to the franklin sitting there within.

10. "Here sittest thou, franklin, drinking thy wine:
I beg that thy daughter so fair may be mine!"

11. When Hjalmar stood before the board,
Angantyr straight took up the word.--

12. "Here sittest thou, franklin, drinking thy wine:
I beg that thy daug