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 pYEND LrRUNDTYIG 
 
 RKELIG VISE OM DE 
 SOFAME MAO. 
 
 AN OLD DANISH BALLAD. 
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 ACT A COMPAEATIOXIS LITTER ARVM VNIVER3ARVM. 
 
 Printed by John Stein. 
 
 18SO.
 
 Tir a 100 exemplairet.
 
 THE following old Danish ballad is 
 now only found in a fly sheet of the 
 XVII th century, the only known copy 
 of which is in my possession. 
 
 Besides in this Danish form, the 
 same ballad has come to us in two Ice- 
 landic versions from the XVII th cen- 
 tury, published ]S51inSvE.\D GRUNDTVKJ'S 
 and JON SIGURDHSSON'S ISLENZK FORNKVAEDHI, 
 nr. 6: ^Kaupmannakvaedhi" ; and also in 
 a Norwegian version taken down from 
 oral tradition and published by Soph us 
 Bugge in his Gamle norske folkeviser 
 (Kristiania 1858), nr. 17 : B Dei frear- 
 lause menn." The Danish version is 
 beyond doubt the best preserved and 
 the most complete of the four Scan- 
 dinavian forms, though pach of them has 
 interesting particulars of its own. Re- 
 markably enough, this same ballad, 
 which has not been found in Germany, 
 nor in England, has come to us in a French 
 version, from Bretagne: Le petit navire, 
 printed in Melusine J877, p. 463, and 
 also in a Portuguese version, print- 
 ed by Almeida Garrett in his Eoman- 
 cero (Lisboa 1851), and thence in a 
 
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 German translation in Ferdinand Wolf's 
 Proben portug. u. Catalan, volksroman- 
 zen (Sitzirogsber. d. k. k. Ak. d. wis- 
 sensch. Wieu 1856., p. 103, nr. 9 : n Das 
 schiff Cathrineta.") 
 
 It may still be remarked, that Ta- 
 citus in his Agricola (chapter XXVIII) 
 has a story of some English mariners 
 who in a similar distress at sea ate one 
 another (see also Grimm's Svgen nr. 3G7), 
 and the same thing is told in the Ger- 
 man cbapbook of Henry the Lio-n (Reichard, 
 Bibl. d. romane VIIL p. 127). But such 
 of couise may have passed more than 
 once in reality, and shows no direct 
 connection with our ballad. 
 
 EN M.IRKELIG VISE OM DE sO PARSE MA>D. 
 
 1. DEE bode en konning i Babylon, 
 
 De s'dfarnt m'dnd. - 
 fire og tyve Conner havde han. 
 
 De so/arne m'dnd, 
 i lunden der grade deres arer. 
 
 2. Somme vilde sfjle, somme vilde ro, 
 inyeu v'dde hjemme hos faderen bo. 
 
 3. De gange dennem da ned til strand , 
 de glemte Gad fader, son og 
 
 4. De lagde dennem vd at sejlr, til fuld, 
 de hissede deres s>>jl med silke og guld. 
 
 5. ,,Nu ville vi aejle og Jare, 
 ja vel udi atle are." 
 
 6. De sejJer, de sfjler pa bolgen Ha, 
 
 de sejlede under et sAarr, som de la. 
 
 7. Alle rare de sotkendeborn for sand, 
 t>a n'dr som den gamin tti/remand.
 
 8. De lagde dem ned at grade, 
 de havde slet inlet at ude. 
 
 9. ! tor ikke end ved at grade, 
 I ville mig nu slet op'ddc." 
 
 10. De toge oq bandt ham ved sejlende-stang, 
 de slagted ham som et andet lam. 
 
 11. De toge og bandt ham ved sejlende-trii, 
 de slagtcd ham, som bonder slagte fa. 
 
 12. De share ud hans lever og lungf^ 
 de bare for den unge konge. 
 
 13. I softer det kod oq gemmer del vei ! 
 Ji>r vi ude deraf, da suite vi ifijel." 
 
 14. Da kom der en due fra himmflen ned, 
 den suite sig pa det sejlende-tr'd 
 
 15. Kongen han taled til liden smaJreng : 
 
 Da skyd mig den due og koy mig den .'" 
 
 16. n -Ifg er ikke en dur, at stkyde handt, 
 j'-q er en engd, o.j himmelen sendt." 
 
 17. r Kst clu, en Gud* engel, som af gar savn, 
 a hj'cVp du os over i Jenu navn!" 
 
 18. n Ld'jyer eler hen at sooe under o! 
 iiitH* j*g sej'er ow-r dan salts so !* 
 
 19. Sa rajned op denforste: 
 
 ., A' have vi vinden den bedste!' 1 
 
 20. (S.5 lained op den anden: 
 ..Ait ere vi k'jmne tit {.undent" 
 
 21. Xa er her glade over atle med gammen, 
 
 Dtt s<>farne ma/iJ. 
 
 fadtr oij AW/I we/- de korn>,,e tilsammen. 
 
 De sofurne iiiandj 
 
 udi lunden d>r grade de.rts arer, 
 
 \ WODEKFLL BALLAD OF THE SEAFABIXG MEX. 
 
 1. Ix Babylon lived a king of yore, 
 
 The seafaring men.
 
 be had twenty sons and four. 
 
 The seafaring men, 
 in the greenwood grew their oars. Oh ! 
 
 2. Some would sail, and some would roam, 
 none would stay with his father at home. 
 
 3. They went to the strand with bang and boast, 
 they forgot God the Father, Son wnd Holy 
 
 Ghost. 
 
 4. They laid out to sail so bnld, 
 
 they hoisted their sails with silk and gold. 
 
 5. M Now we will sail, now we will fare, 
 nothing less than seven year." 
 
 6. They sailed and sailed the billows blue. 
 till under a rock, where wind never blew. 
 
 7. All were of the same kin and bl~od, 
 the old steersman was the only odd.. 
 
 8. They lay down crying and weeping, 
 no crumb was left for eating. 
 
 0. Quoth the old mate : Before you starve, 
 rather ye may me lull and carve." 
 
 10. They took and bound him to the mast, 
 they slaughtered him as another beast. 
 
 11. They slaughtered him as calf or lamb, 
 they cooked and carved him as veal or ham. 
 
 12. They cut out both liver and lung, 
 and bore it for the king so young. 
 
 13. n Keep it yourselves, and salt your meat: 
 I will much rather die than eat.-' 
 
 14. There came a dove from th heavens high 
 it sat down on the sailing tree. 
 
 15. Quoth tLe young k ng to his boy so wee: 
 ,,?;hoot m that bird, and cook it for me." 
 
 1G. ,,I am no bird to be shot for food, 
 I am from heaven an angel jrood."
 
 17. ,,If thou art a God's angel, as thou dost tell, 
 in the name of Christ thou help us well.'- 
 
 18. ,,Lay yourselves down to sleep and rest; 
 while I will sail the salt sea best." 
 
 19. Up awoke sailor the airest *) 
 
 we have wind the fairest." 
 
 20. Up and spoke another: 
 
 ,,I see the land of my mother." 
 
 21. There was mirth, and there was glee, 
 
 The seafaring men. 
 when father and sons each other did see. 
 
 - The seafaring men, 
 in the greenwood grew their oars. Oh! 
 
 *) airest, erest = first.