Drowned Maid

I went to wash at the shore

I went to bathe in the sea

and there I, a hen, was lost



I, a bird

untimely died

Let not my brother

ever in this world

water his war-horse

upon the seashore!



Waters of the sea

so much blood of mine

fishes of the sea

so much flesh of mine



Such the death of the young maid

end of the fair little hen


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