And knows that her love was vain.

Draw from my arm this token,

This ring of gleaming gold:

And bear it to Ingibjörg the fair,

Lest she deem my love grown cold.

Young is the maid to bear the sorrow

Her heart must then endure,

When I ride not home to greet her,

When I keep not my tryst as of yore

*I left the youthful Ingibjörg