(_London_, 1824.)

(5) _The Monthly Magazine_, Vol. lviii, 1824-1825.

Pp. 19-22.

DANISH TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS. A Prose Essay. _Part i_.
Including _inter alia_ the following Ballad:

WALDEMAR'S CHASE. [_Late at eve they were toiling on Harribee bank_]

Reprinted in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 115-116.

P. 47.

WAR-SONG; WRITTEN WHEN THE FRENCH FIRST INVADED SPAIN. [_Arise_, _ye
sons of injur'd Spain_]

P. 432.

DANISH SONGS AND BALLADS. No. 1, BEAR SONG. [_The squirrel that's
sporting_]

Reprinted in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 144-145.

Pp. 498-500.

DANISH TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS. A Prose Essay. _Part ii_.

(6) _The Monthly Magazine_, Vol. lix, 1825.

Pp. 25-26 and 103-104.

DANISH TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS. A Prose Essay. _Parts iii and iv_.

Pp. 143-144.

THE DECEIVED MERMAN. [_Fair Agnes left her mother's door_]

Reprinted (with very considerable changes in the text, the first line
reading "_Fair Agnes alone on the sea-shore stood_") in _Romantic
Ballads_, 1826, pp. 120-123.

In 1854 Borrow rewrote this Ballad, and furnished it with a new title
_Agnes and the Merman_. The following stanzas taken from each, will
serve to show the difference between the two versions:--

1826.

_The Merman up to the church door came_;
_His eyes they shone like a yellow flame_;

_His face was white_, _and his beard was green_--
_A fairer demon was never seen_.

"_Now_, _Agnes_, _Agnes_, _list to me_,
_Thy babes are longing so after thee_."

"_I cannot come yet_, _here must I stay_
_Until the priest shall have said his say_."

1854.

_In at the door the Merman treads_--
_Away the images turned their heads_.

_His face was white_, _his beard was green_,
_His eyes were full of love_, _I ween_.

"_Hear_, _Agnes_, _hear_! _'tis time for thee_
_To come to thy home below the sea_."

"_I cannot come yet_, _I here must stay_,
_Until the priest has said his say_."

Pp. 308, 411, and 507.

DANISH TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS. A Prose Essay. _Parts v_, _vi_,
_and vii_.

(7) _The Monthly Magazine_, Vol. lx, 1825.