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Excerpt from On the History of the Ballads, 1100-1500, Vol. 4 The best evidence of age is given by the Danish ballads on histori cal subjects.2 This evidence as to the age of the poems is internal, and possibly to some students may seem wanting in cogency. Those who use it are bound to prove that these historical ballads - or the majority of them, at any rate - follow closely upon the events themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.