Under Bølgen Blå [English translation]

A girl, she walks by the sea's white sand,

a kind maiden,

there she sees a ship sailing towards land,

under the blue wave, under the blue wave.

"What do you have in the ship?" the captain, she asks.

- We have wine so sweet, for a little maiden mouth.

She tasted the wine, and the wine tasted sweet.

Then she fell asleep, in the lap of the captain.

And when they came out onto the blue waves,

the fair maiden woke from the sleep in which she was.

"You will not come home to your father and mother,

before you have a son that may steer the ship."

Then the fair maiden leaps into the wild sea.

The captain tossed the anchor, was the maiden dead?

Now the fair maiden lies on the bottom of the sea,

there she has a merman that kisses her mouth.