carline

Now the carline bade us get ashore, and we did so, and found the land wondrous fair, little as that solaced us then.

There was a carline at Bergthorsknoll, whose name was Saevuna.

Then the carline rose, and her eyes were strange, as if they saw beyond that upon which she looked.

They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.

She's a fine fusher, Leddy Carline: faith, she may weel be, for I taucht her mysel'.