Our ship must sail the faem;
The king's daughter of Noroway,
'Tis we must fetch her hame.'
They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn,
Wi' a' the speed they may;
They hae landed in Noroway,
Upon a Wodensday.
They had na been a week, a week,
In Noroway, but twae,
When that the lords of Noroway