I bought this from mentions of it in Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel
Lavengro, which tells how he got hold of a copy of the Danish balld book Kempe Visur ager a shipwreck (if I recall rightly) and translated it. Some of the ballads are good old heroic pieces. He also includes a few pieces by Oehlenslager and the Danish national anthem by Evald and s few poems from other languages. He claims to have tried to translate in a way that rejects the modern (19th century) tendency "to forget that smoothness and tunefulness are nearly synonymous with tameness and meaninglessness" but some of his own versions seem more tame and meaningless than I would like. ( )