See we Thor's Hammer;

Gods will protect us

Under a shield-burgh,

Carved in the mast we—

The Runes of Yggdrasil!

But the Earl called down from the kicking tiller-head,

"Six hands lay along to me!

Tumble out the hawsers there, Skallagrim the Red!

For a battle with a Berserk sea;

Sing a song of work, of a well-stayed mast,