Fill in the Blanks Book Blurbs 16Online version Book Blurbs by Michael Riccioli 1 provides first ballads account published describes tradition edition translation create In over beautifully by poems Treading the Dance : Danish Medieval Ballads by David Broadbridge Stacey International 2011 his introduction David Broadbridge Danish medieval as a 'national inheritance of the rank' . His new of the ballads is the first in 40 years and the first ever to be in a bi - lingual . The poems are laid out and accompanied Sonia Brandes' paper - cut illustrations to 'a book of and pictures in dialogue' . Broadbridge also a short of the ballads' history and .