SONGS RELATING TO QUEEN DAGMAR
I. KING VALDEMAR’S WOOING.
Valdemar King and Sir Strange bold
At table sat one day,
So many a word ’twixt them there passed
In amicable way.
“Hear Strange, hear! thou for a time
Thy native land must leave;
Thou shalt away to Bohemia far
My young bride to receive.”
Then answered Strange Ebbesen,
To answer he was not slow:
“Who shall attend me of thy liegemen,
If I to Bohemia go?”
“Do thou take with thee young Lord Limbek,
Nor leave Olaf Lukke behind;
Take rich Peter Glob, and whomsoe’er
Shall best please thine own mind.
“Take Sealand’s Bishop, none more learned
There dwelleth North nor South,
And take Sir Albert of Eskilsea,
There’s eloquence in his mouth.”
It was the young Sir Strange bold,
He down to the sea shore wends,
And him King Valdemar himself
With nobles many attends.
And they sailed over the briny wave,
They sailed for sennights three,
The nearest way to Bohemia’s bounds,
They were at heart so free.
They furled their sail, and their anchor dropped,
To the land they eagerly sped;
So fair a band of knights they were,
Sir Strange at their head.