How our Denmarks got lost

This stands in all our burghs ¹
How our Denmarks got lost 1600 and 2 years after Aldland is perished.

Through Wodin’s folly and madness was the Magy become boss over Skenland’s eastern part. Over the mountains and over the sea dared they not come.

The Mother would not have it back, she spoke and quoth, I see no danger in his weapons, but well (is there danger) to take back the Skenlanders for they are bastarded and rotten.⁵
Upon the general assembly, everyone thought likewise.
Therefore is it left to them.

A good 100 years later began the Danes to trade with them.
They gave them iron weapons and tools therefor they exchanged golden ornaments along with copper and iron ore.

The Mother sent messengers and advised thus, they should let the trade go.¹⁰
There were dangers said she for their morals, and by that which they lose their principles, then should they also lose their freedom.
But the Danes hadn’t ears toward that.

They wouldn’t not conceive that their morals could vanish, therefore did they not bother themselves.
At long last they found their own weapons and supplies lacking.
But that wrong wrought its own punishment.¹⁵
Their bodies were laden with looks and appearance, but their chests, cupboards and barns were empty.

Only a hundred years after the day that the first ship was sailed from the coast, came poverty and want in through the windows, hunger spread his wings and struck down upon the land, strife lept proudly over the street and forth to within the houses, of love couldn’t no trace no longer not be found and quarrelling ran away.

The child wished food of his mother and the mother well had baubles through nothing to eat.
The wives came to their husbands, these went to the graves, the graves themselves had nothing or kept it hidden.²⁰

Now must one sell the decorations, but while the seamen were gone away therewith came frost and laid a plank down upon the sea and over the straight (sound).
When frost had reached the bridge, the watchfulness over the land stepped out and betrayal climbed upon the seat.

Instead of watching the shores, hitched they their horses to sleds and ran then to Skenland. The Skenlanders who were desirous after the land of their forebears, came to the Denmarks.
Upon a bright night came they all.²⁵

Now said they that they had a right upon the land of their forbears and while one fought thereover, came the Finns into the neglected thorps and ran with the children away.
Thereby and that they hadn’t not not good weapons, was the cause lost to them and therewith their freedom for the Magy became boss.

That came, that they never read Frya’s tex and had neglected her advice-giving.
There are some that think that they were betrayed by the graves, that the maids had long suspected it, though whosoever would speak thereof, his mouth shall be snared to with golden chains.

We may not pass judgement thereupon, but we will warn you, lean not too much upon the wisdom and virtue of your princes nor of your maids, for if it shall hold (together) ³⁰
so must each man alike watch over his own drives as well as for the common welfare.