Ethelfrith was seated upon the ground, holding Ethelbert's dissevered head in her arms, and she rocked herself to and fro, and chanted in a far-away tone.
"Under the leaves, under the leaves,
There saw I maidens seven!"
She broke off short, and changed her tune.
"Then He built Him a bridge of the beams of the sun,
And over the water ran He;
And the three wealthy wights they followed him after,
And drowned they were all three!"
"Come, canst thou riddle me my ridlass?
"Yellow and green,