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j FRITHIOF’S SAGA 153
Gaze fondly again on those bright locks of gold,
And hear once again that voice dearest to me.
bj6rn
Good is thy purpose.—By Ring shall be seen
How vengeance of Viking like lightning can gleam:
At midnight the court of the monarch shall flame:
We’ll slaughter the Greybeard, we’11 bear off the Queen.
Or wilt thou treat him in Vikinga-wise,
Hold’st thou him worthy of Holmgang with thee ?
Then challenge him forth to contend on the ice,
Whatever thou wiliest, I ready shall be.
frithiof
Speak not of slaughter, nor think upon war;
In peace to the court of the monarch I ’11 wend.
Faultless is he, nor did Ingborg offend,
But the vengeance of angry gods I have to bear.
Now leave of my dear one my heart longs to take,
Since slight hope for me upon earth can remain;
A farewell eternal! when green buds awake
At the breathing of spring, thou shalt see me again.
bjorn
Ah! Frithiof, thy folly seems strange to my mind:
What! sorrow and sigh for a false woman’s love!
In sooth, upon earth there are women enough!
For the one thou hast lost thou a thousand may’st find.
If thou wilt, e’en a lading of that kind of ware
Shall swiftly from Southland so glowing be brought,
As ruddy as rosebuds, like lambs tame and fair,
We ’11 divide them as brothers, or share them by lot.
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