"Lady Stineborg's children went out to play,
Lady Sölfverlind's children sate weeping all day.
This know we of Ulf.
The youngest child it wept so loud,
That it woke its mother beneath the sod.
This know we of Ulf.
Lady Sölfverlind spoke to the angel-band:
'Is it granted to visit the earthly land?'
This know we of Ulf.
'It is granted from heaven to earth to go,
But thou must return ere the first cock crow.'
This know we of Ulf.
She came to the door, she tirled at the pin;
'Rise up, my children, and let me in.'
This know we of Ulf.
'On sticks and stones why lie you thus?'
'Nothing besides is given to us.'
This know we of Ulf.
'Why look ye, my children, so grim and so grey?'
'We have not been washed since thou went away.'
This know we of Ulf.
'Rise up, Lady Stineborg, hearken to me,
For I have a few words to speak unto thee!'
This know we of Ulf.
'I left behind me both upland and low,
Yet now my children must supperless go.'
This know we of Ulf.
'I left behind me both oxen and kine,
Yet now they go barefoot, these children of mine.'
This know we of Ulf.