# The Maid of Elsinore

- Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (died 1935)
- Words: Harold Boulton (died 1935)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6409323

## The words

A tearful boy king Olaf stood ’Mid his  
warriors grim and grey, As the good ship bore  
him over the flood, From his first fond love  
away. His wistful eyes still sought the shore,  
But the rough earls laugh’d that Odin’s seed  
The woodland flow’r should stoop to heed,  
The Maid of Elsinore.  
The mountain pine grows strong and sure,  
By northern tempests sway’d,  
The frail harebell will bloom secure In the  
shelter’d forest glade; Thus Olaf’s arm wax’d  
great in war, Till distant isles his prowess  
knew, And fairer bloom’d and ever true  
The Maid of Elsinore.  
’Twas ten long years of storm and fight By many  
a foreign main, Ere great king Olaf’s  
conquering might Came sailing home again;  
The Viking ships were rang’d ashore,  
The rough earls laugh’d in scorn no more,  
He plac’d her hands within his own,  
Upon her brow the queenly crown,  
O’er fjord and field the glad bells peal’d,  
For the Maid, the Maid of Elsinore.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).