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" ...]kjaempeviser in his native country. But Bowring proved a broken reed, and Borrow suffered once again one of those disappointments which so naturally embittered him. It was not until 1874, however, some seven years before his death, that he finally gave up all hope. The MSS. of his translations of the kjaempeviser passed into the hands of Mrs. MacOubrey. The ballad of Grimhild's Vengeance (Grimhilds Hevn) is given in three versions by Abrahamson, Nyerup ...].""