Oh! hear me out, for who knows when they will come to take me, who have walked into this nest of foes that I may be taken?
Pray as I would, the ship was run out, and we sailed for Lesso.

There, in my father's hall, upon my knees, I entreated him to hold his hand.
I told him what was true: that, of you twain, it was you I loved, not Steinar.

I told him that if he forced this marriage, war would come of it that might mean all our deaths.

But these things moved him nothing.
Then I told him that such a deed of shame would mean the loss of Steinar's lordship, so that by it he would gain no profit.

At last he listened, for this touched him near.