And tear-filled eyne—

—Mind you, Queen of the Danemen,

You first were mine?”

The fiddles struck in again, the dancers hummed the new-learned tune and joined in the burden.

“And are you, Ivar Sir Alfsön,

Sworn man to me,

Then shall you hang to-morrow

On the gallows tree!”

But ’twas Ivar Sir Alfsön,

All unafraid