The Book of Brave Old Ballads gathers traditional heroic ballads from the English and Scottish oral tradition — the stirring verse narratives of border raids, sea battles, outlaw heroes, and legendary deeds that formed the popular poetry of medieval and early modern Britain.
Ballads like ‘Chevy Chase’, ‘The Battle of Otterburn’, and ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ are among the most powerful narrative poems in the language. This free EPUB presents the collection cleanly formatted with each ballad’s stanza and refrain structure carefully preserved.