I went to bathe in the sea  
  and there I, a hen, was lost  
  
  I, a bird  
  untimely died:  
  Let not my brother  
  ever in this world  
  water his war-horse  
  upon the seashore!  
  
  Waters of the sea  
  so much blood of mine  
  fishes of the sea  
  so much flesh of mine  
  
  Such the death of the young maid  
  end of the fair little hen