Break not friendship, break not bond;

Break not promise, break not word;

Come not nigh me, noble chief!

"Fifty chiefs obtained in plight

This same maid, a proffer vain.

Through me went they to their graves;

Spear-right all they had from me!

"Though for brave was held Ferbaeth,

With whom was a warriors' train,

In short space I quelled his rage;