Fair Ingefred gained, because bride she had been,
One of the King’s knights of handsome mien.
SIR RIBOLT.
Ribolt the son of a Count was he—
Gulborg he courted in secrecy.
Since she was a child the maid he woo’d,
And till she had come to womanhood.
“Gulborg do thou become my bride,
In a better land then thou shalt reside.
“Unto the land I thee will bear,
Where grief ne’er comes the mind to tear.
“To an island ’neath a blissful sky,
Where thou shalt live and never die.”
“To the land thou never me wilt bear,
But grief shall come the mind to tear.
“Nor me to the isle wilt thou convey
Where I’ve no death to the Lord to pay.”
“O there no grass but the leek up-springs,
And there no bird but the cuckoo sings.