'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg': two versions of a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1824-[1829?] and before [1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 52.
'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg'. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of fourteen quarto leaves of white wove paper. Watermark 'FELLOWS / 1824'. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand, and below the title has 'Chorus. / But fortune turns round so often.'. The stanza...
'Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg'. Autograph fair copy, with a few pencil revisions, written on both sides of twenty-five quarto leaves of blue laid paper and on one side only of a twenty-sixth. Watermark 'MH' and figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand. The hand and th...