The noteworthy points in the story of Hind Horn are these. Hind Horn has served the king seven years (#D#, #F#), and has fallen in love with his daughter. She gives Hind Horn a jewelled ring: as long as the stone keeps its color, he may know that she is faithful; but if it changes hue, he may ken she loves another man. The king is angry (#D#), and Hind Horn goes to sea [is sent, #D#]. He has been gone seven years, #E#, #F# [seven years and a day, #B#], when, looking on his ring, he sees that the stone is pale and wan, #A-H#. He makes for the land at once, and, meeting an old beggar, asks him for news. No news but the king's daughter's wedding: it has lasted nine days [two and forty, #A#], and she will not go into the bride-bed till she hears of Hind Horn, #E#. Hind Horn changed cloaks and other gear with the beggar, and when he came to the king's gate asked for a drink in Horn's name,[161] #A#, #B#, #D#. The bride herself came down, and gave him a drink out of her own hand, #A#, #B#, #C#, #G#, #H#. He drank out the drink and dropped in the ring. 'O gat ye 't by sea, or gat ye 't by lan, Or gat ye 't aff a dead man's han?' So she asked; and he answered: 'I gat na 't by sea, I gat na 't by lan, But I gat it out of your own han.' #D# 14. 'I got na 't by sea, I got na 't by land, Nor got I it aff a drownd man's hand; 'But I got it at my wooing, And I'll gie it at your wedding.' #G# 29, 30. The bride, who had said, 'I'll go through nine fires so hot, But I'll give him a drink for Young Hynhorn's sake,' #B# 16, is no less ready now: 'I'll tak the red gowd frae my head, And follow you and beg my bread. 'I'll tak the red gowd frae my hair, And follow you for evermair.' #H# 31, 32. But Hind Horn let his cloutie cloak fall, #G#, #H#, and told her, 'Ye need na leave your bridal gown, For I'll make ye ladie o many a town.' The story of Horn, of which this ballad gives little more than the catastrophe, is related at full in I. 'King Horn,' a _gest_ in about 1550 short verses, preserved in three manuscripts: the oldest regarded as of the second half of the 13th century, or older; the others put at 1300 and a little later. All three have been printed: (1.) By Michel, Horn et Rimenhild, p. 259 ff, Bannatyne Club, 1845; J. R. Lumby, Early English Text Society, 1866; and in editions founded on Lumby's text, by Mätzner, Altenglische Sprachproben, p. 270 ff, and later by Wissmann, Quellen u. Forschungen, No 45. (2.) By Horstmann, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, 1872, L, 39 ff. (3.) By Ritson, A.E. Metrical Romanceës, II, 91 ff. II. 'Horn et Rymenhild,' a romance in about 5250 heroic verses, preserved likewise in three manuscripts; the best in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge, and of the 14th century.