English poem
Then quoth the knight from Sturmland: “The like I never saw
by Mary Pickering Nichols (1829–1915)
Then quoth the knight from Sturmland: “The like I never saw; If any here could teach it, from here would I not withdraw Till a year was fully ended, and I had learned it rightly. Whoe’er should be my master, for his care and pains would I not reward him lightly.”
More by Mary Pickering Nichols
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- The youthful knights were singing, as they left the field
- Then came a fencing-master, and began his craft to show
- Then from the water turning, both fled away in haste
- Then said Gu-drun, in sorrow: “I know not where to go
- Then said King Hettel’s daughter: “That were a deed of shame
- Then said the aged Wâ-te: “This can never be
- Then said the knight, young Ortwin: “Let us bury them here