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"O what shall I in Denmark do? / To bear your armour I'm too weak; / The Danish warriors jeer at me, / Because their tongue I cannot speak."
It was the young Danneved, / He bade them saddle his courser grey: / "O I will ride to Borrebye, / And a visit to my mother pay."