eborg the Queen_.
_Who knows like us to rhyme and rune_?

_The first the rushing storm could turn_,
_The second could still the running burn_.
_Who knows like us to rhyme and rune_?

Svend Vonved. [_Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower_] 61

In a Manuscript of 1830 the name employed is _Swayne
Vonved_. There is no 1854 Manuscript of this Ballad.

The Tournament. [_Six score there were_, _six score and 82
ten_]

_The Tournament_ was one of the Ballads entirely
rewritten by Borrow in 1854 for inclusion in the then
projected _Koempe Viser_. The text of the later version
differed greatly from that of 1826, as the following
extracts will show:

1826.

_Six score there were_, _six score and ten_,
_From Hald that rode that day_;
_And when they came to Brattingsborg_
_They pitch'd their pavilion gay_.

_King Nilaus stood on the turrets top_,
_Had all around in sight_:
"_Why hold those heroes their lives so cheap_,
_That it lists them here to fight_?

"_Now_, _hear me_, _Sivard Snaresvend_;
_Far hast thou rov'd_, _and wide_,
_Those warriors' weapons thou shalt prove_,
_To their tent thou must straightway ride_."

* * * * *

_There shine upon the eighteenth shield_
_A man_, _and a fierce wild boar_,
_Are borne by the Count of Lidebierg_;
_His blows fall heavy and sore_.

_There shines upon the twentieth shield_,
_Among branches_, _a rose_, _so gay_;
_Wherever Sir Nordman comes in war_,
_He bears bright honour away_.

_There shines on the one-and-twentieth shield_
_A vase_, _and of copper_ '_tis made_;
_That's borne by Mogan Sir Olgerson_:
_He wins broad lands with his blade_.

_And now comes forth the next good shield_,
_With a sun dispelling the mirk_;
_And that by Asbiorn Milde is borne_;
_He sets the knights' backs at work_.

_Now comes the four-and-twentieth shield_,
_And a bright sword there you see_;
_And that by Humble Sir Jerfing is borne_;
_Full worthy of that is he_.

* * * * *

_Sir Humble struck his hand on the board_;
_No longer he lists to play_:
_I tell you_, _forsooth_, _that the rosy hue_
_From his cheek fast faded away_.

"_Now_, _hear me_, _Vidrik Verlandson_;
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