But he felt strangely dissatisfied.
“I should also like to know what it was you said when we passed beneath the great lime tree, and when we came to that deep trench in the forest.”
“I really cannot recollect all I said,” replied dark Isolde, crossly. “I am sure it was nothing of any importance.”
“Nay, but I insist upon knowing,” said Fertram, “you seemed so strange and not at all like yourself; you must tell me!”
So Isolde once again went to her mother, and the queen said that when they came to the great linden tree, Näfra Kolla had said—
“Behold the giant linden tree
Beneath whose shade Fertram and Isolde
Plighted their troth for ever and aye.
And he will hold to it yet!”
and that when they arrived at the deep trench, she murmured—