English poem
To her King Herwic answered: “This will I say to you
by Mary Pickering Nichols (1829–1915)
To her King Herwic answered: “This will I say to you: Your men, if they will hasten, in twelve days’ time can go; But if any to your kingdom the maiden would be leading, Ill luck, I ween, awaits him, unless with him my own good knights be speeding.”
More by Mary Pickering Nichols
- Those who came with Morunc wore mantles over all
- Throughout the night they rested, till dawn of the coming…
- Thus unbeknown and slyly, sailed away o’er the main
- To Fru-te thus she answered: “That gift is not for thee
- To her the king thus answered: “That shall quickly be
- To her then said fair Hildeburg: “For me it were not well
- To her then said Lord Herwic: “How can she be clad
- To him, the king of Sealand, great ill erelong was wrought