ains tow'rds;
Then must he hear so far, far off
The clash of his children's swords.

And that heard Alf of Odderskier,
So far across the down:
"What have my sons now got in hand?
Why so wrathful are they grown?"

He tarried then so short a space,
He sprang on his courser red;
And he arrived at Upsala
Before his sons lay dead.

"Now tell me, youthful Helmer Kamp,
Tell me my dearest son,
Wherefore so free from thy flesh and bone
Those bloody rivers run?"

Then answered the young Helmer Kamp,
As he writhed him round with pain;
This Angelfyr, my brother, has done
Since the maid he could not gain.

I have full fifteen mortal wounds,
They are blent with poison all;
But if I had only one of them,
I dead full soon must fall."

"Now list to me, young Angelfyr,
Beloved son of mine;
Say, wherefore trembles so the sword,
In that good hand of thine?"

"Ask'st thou why trembles so the sword
In this right hand of mine?
Because I've eighteen mortal wounds,
And to hurt me they combine.

"I have full eighteen mortal wounds,
And each so deadly sore;
If I had only one of them
I could not live an hour."

It was Alf of Odderskier,
An oak by the root uptore;
It was the young Helmer Kamp
Whom dead he laid in gore.

Now lie the valiant kempions two,
Within a single grave;
And the King to his daughter cannot give
The swain whom she will have.

Sore sorrows Alf of Odderskier,
His valiant children slain.
Whilst Upsal's King may still at home
His daughter fair retain.

LONDON:
Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.

_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_.

Footnote:

{7} A title of dignity, equivalent to that of Count.

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