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Young Swaigder

Or, The Force of Runes, and Other Ballads

by George Borrow

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A ball tossed into a maiden's room sets young Swaigder on a quest for a woman in a distant land. Troubled by his stepmother's runes, he calls upon his dead mother for guidance. Her promised gifts include a horse that can cross the sea, a horn that supplies drink, and a vessel able to travel over land and water. George Borrow's ballads place family loyalties and longing within a world of spells, guarded castles, and impossible voyages.

The collection also includes a storm at Horunga haven, where supernatural forces overwhelm fighting men, and the tale of Rosmer, a sea being whose household conceals a missing Danish daughter. Short rhyming stanzas, repeated speeches, and sudden changes of fortune give these poems their storytelling rhythm.

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George Borrow was an English writer, translator, linguist, and traveler whose books draw on encounters across Britain and continental Europe. John Murray issued Lavengro in 1851; it blends autobiography and fiction as its wandering narrator moves through barrack towns, London literary work, and meetings with Romani communities.

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