1 They've putten her into prison strang, A twalmon lang and mair, Until the mice and wild rattens Did tear her yallow hair. * * * * * * * 2 'One shake o your han,' said Rodingham, 'One shak o your han gie me:' 'I cam na here for shaking hans, But to fight maist desperatelie.' 3 'It's nae ten strucken on the clock, Nor eleven on the bell:' 'We'll doe ill deeds anew ere night, Tho it were strucken twall.' * * * * * #A.# 2^2. _Perhaps we should read ~to betray~._ 4^2. was lind. 5^4. in 2. 13^3. be bul: _~t~ torn off, and one stroke of the ~u~ dotted. Furnivall._ 17^4. _~S^r~ before ~Euer~ crossed out. Furnivall._ 19^1. dreamed the grype. 24^{1, 3}. 40. 28^4. 4. 30^3, 34^3. _~next~ should, perhaps, be ~nyest~._ 32^1. kirt e. 32^4. her nest. 36^1. 20^{li}_{:}. 38^1. _The rest of the line is cut away._ 40^3. 100. 45^3. thriue: _one stroke of the ~u~ is left out. Furnivall._ 49^4. 2. 52^1. thou K. 52^3. is a. #B.# 28^4. as ere. [31] Such dreams are not unusual in this connection: the empress has a like one in Octavian, Weber, Metrical Romances, III, 165, v. 195 ff; the emperor in The Erl of Tolous, Lüdtke, st. 68; the duke in the German Hirlanda. [32] All these Scandinavian versions were printed for the first time by Grundtvig, save two out of eleven copies of #K#: these two in Kristensen, I, 124, No 49, 'Mimering,' and II, 306, No 87, 'Fru Gunder i Spire.' #F# was subsequently printed in Íslenzk Fornkvæði, No 12, I, 78, 'Gunnhildar kvæði.' Grundtvig devoted particular attention to this ballad, and has elucidated the history of the subject in a masterly way. [33] See Flóamannasaga, Vigfússon and Möbius, Fornsögur, p. 134 f, where the whole sword is hid in the sand; Svarfdælasaga, Íslendínga Sögur, 1830, II, 132-134; Gunnlaugs saga ormstúngu, Ísl. Sög., 1847, II, 225 f; Þiðriks saga, Unger, p. 206, c. 222; Sturlaugs saga starfsama, c. 10, Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur, III, 608 f; and cf. 'Orm Ungersvend og Bermer Rise,' Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, No 11: Grundtvig and Bugge. Besides the oath customary in judicial combats, that the parties believe in the justice of their cause, the old Frisian and Lombard laws require champions to swear that they will fight fairly and honestly, and that they have no charm concealed about them, "ne forte carminibus, vel machinis diabolicis, vel magicis artibus insidientur:" Grundtvig, I, 194 note *. Jove seems to be expected to laugh at a qualified perjury in some of the above cases. [34] Hans Hendrik in #H#; clearly, as Grundtvig says, a modern misunderstanding of Han Hendrik.