But she has broken her lover's mysterious caution, and he is mortally wounded in consequence:
"When Ribolt's name she named that stound,
'Twas then that he gat his deadly wound."
In the Scottish ballad, no such caution is given; nor is the lady's calling on her lover's name at all alluded to as being the cause of his death. It is so, however, as in the Danish version:
"She held his steed in her milk-white hand,
And never shed one tear,
Until that she saw her seven brethren fa',
And her father hard fighting, who loved her so dear.
"O hold your hand, Lord William, she said,
For your strokes they are wondrous sair;