Slepp Meg [English translation]

Let me go, Åsmund,

you shouldn't hold my hand.

Hukbrud, she comes,

smashing you under her weight.1

Let me go, Åsmund,

you shouldn't hold me in your arms.

My mother she comes,

eating every Christian man.

Let me go, you let me go,

that I advise you to do.

Let me go, you let me go,

(she) swallows both of us.2

Let me go, you let me go,

that I advise you to do.

Let me go, you let me go,

(she) swallows both of us.

"It isn't your mother,

if you didn't know it,3

princess,4

who lives here in the south."

"It isn't your mother,

if you didn't know it,

princess,

who lives here in the south."

Let me go, you let me go,

that I advise you to do.

Let me go, you let me go,

(she) swallows both of us.

Let me go, you let me go,

that I advise you to do.

Let me go, you let me go,

(she) swallows both of us.

1. Lit. 'smashes you under her ton'2. Lit. '(she) swallows in herself both'3. Lit. 'if you don't anything-else know'4. Lit. 'king's daughter'