lume.

There is a copy of _The Expedition to Birting's Land and Other Ballads_
in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.

[Picture: Manuscript of Singing Mariner]

_PART II_.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE, ETC.

(1) _The New Monthly Magazine_, Vol. vii, 1823. Pp. 540-542.

THE DIVER, A BALLAD TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. [_Where is the man who
will dive for his King_?]

Reprinted in The Song of Deirdra and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 8-17.

(2) _The Monthly Magazine_, Vol. lvi, 1823.

P. 244.

ODE TO A MOUNTAIN TORRENT. [_How lovely thou art in thy tresses of
foam_]

Reprinted, with the text substantially revised, in _Romantic Ballads_,
1826, pp. 164-166. Again reprinted in _Targum_, 1835, pp. 45-46.

The majority of Borrow's contributions to _The Monthly Magazine_ appeared
under the signature '_George Olaus Borrow_.' Dr. Knapp has recorded that
he found in the Corporation Library at Norwich a book on ancient Danish
Literature, by Olaus Wormius, carrying several marginal notes in Borrow's
handwriting. The suggestion that it was from this book that Borrow
derived the pseudonymous second Christian name which he employed in _The
Monthly Magazine_ is not an unreasonable one.

P. 245.

DEATH. [_Perhaps_ '_tis folly_, _but still I feel_]

Reprinted (under the amended title _Thoughts on Death_, and with some
small textual variations) in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 169-170.

Another version of the same poem was printed (under the title _A Survey
of Death_, the first line reading _My blood is freezing_, _my senses
reel_) in _Mollie Charane and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 11-12.

P. 246.

MOUNTAIN SONG. [_That pathway before ye_, _so narrow and gray_]

Pp. 306-309.

DANISH POETRY AND BALLAD WRITING. A Prose Essay, including, _inter
alia_, the following Ballad:

SKION MIDDEL. [_The maiden was lacing so tightly her vest_]

Reprinted, under the amended title _Sir Middel_, the first line reading
"_So tightly was Swanelil lacing her vest_," in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826,
pp. 28-30.

Another, but widely different, version of this Ballad is printed in
_Child Maidelvold and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 5-10. In this latter
version the name of the heroine is Sidselil in place of Swanelil, and
that of the hero i