1. Does he promise me when I am absent from him,
And turn aside my marriage-gift and spear from me,

2. That never by me shall hand be given
To the meeting halls of the tribe that are not surely known?

3. I have brought back for him noble, bright-eyed damsels
Of delicate ankles and tender palms.

4. And a foot thou were running the half of a day!
So rejoice, for thy shaft is in the right.