“ Smiling peace, or bloody war?”
“Well stand minds in North Jutland,
Each man’s courage there’s erect;
Say, dost come as friend or foe?
What from thee may we expect?
“I have kindred in the North,
Men of wealth and noble race ”

“ Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email [email protected]
NIELS EBBESEN
and
GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE TWO BALLADS
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
p. 4Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
p. 5NIELS EBBESEN.
All his men the Count collects,
And from Slesvig marched away;
Never such as host was seen
Or before or since that day.
Into Denmark marched the Count,
Followed by so fair a band;
Banners twenty-four they bore,
Power like theirs might none withstand. ”