Note 117 — 73 LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET
Reading edition
Herre Per vaknað inki för dá at login leikað i Áselitis hár. Herre Per springe han up af si seng, dá ság han liti Kersti pá gata geng. 'Aa kære liti Kersti, no hjölper du meg! en annen sinn skal eg hjölpe deg.' Og deð var liti Kersti, sá högt hon lóg: 'eg veit du helde sá vel dit órð!'
Landstad, 33-36.
Upon which the good pastor, who loved the things nevertheless, remarks, What a culpable style of life, what moral depravation, many of these ballads depict!