Then, promising that she would give him a sword fitted for diver's kinds of battle, she revealed the marvellous maiden beauty of her lustrous limbs.

Thus was the youth kindled, and she plighted her troth with him, and proffering the sword, she thus began: "King, in this sword, which shall expose the monsters to thy blows, take the first gift of thy betrothed.

Show thyself duly deserving hereof; let hand rival sword, and aspire to add lustre to its weapon.

Let the might of steel strengthen the defenceless point of thy wit, and let spirit know how to work with hand.

Let the bearer match the burden: and that thy deed may sort with thy blade, let equal weight in each be thine.
What avails the javelin when the breast is weak and faint, and the quivering hands have dropped the lance?
Let steel join soul, and be both the body's armour! Let the right hand be linked with its hilt in alliance.