Per Tyrsson's daughters in Vänge

Oh how chilly their woods

They were fast asleep a long time ago

Whilst the woods burst into leaf

The youngest was the first one to awake

She soon awoke the others

They sat themselves down upon their beds

and plaited the hair on each other's heads

Then they dressed in clothes of silk

and made their way to church

When they came to Vänga hill

they met three robbers who held them still

"Pray, would you care to become robbers' wives?

Or would you rather lose your lives?"

"We would not care to become robbers' wives.

We would much rather lose our lives."

They chopped their heads off on birch-wood stem

and soon three wells sprung forth by them

The bodies were dug down in muddy ground,

the clothes they carried to Vänga town.

As they arrived in Vänga farm

Fru Karin came to greet them.

"Say, would you care to buy clothes of silk

that nine maidens have knitted and crotcheted?"

"Open your bundles and let me see

maybe I know them, all three."

Fru Karin quivers as never before

and runs to Per Tyrsson who stands by the door

"There are three robbers outside our farm

they've gotten rid of our daughters"

Per Tyrsson grabs his sword and then

he runs to slay the two older men.

He asked the third one before he stroke

"Who is your father and mother?"

"Our father Per Tyrsson in Vänge,

our mother Fru Karin in Skränge."

Per Tyrsson went to the smithy

and forged himself iron round his waist.

"What shall our retribution be?"

"We'll build a church out of stone and lime."

"Kärna Church shall be its name"

Oh how chilly their woods

"Oh, how willingly we will build it ."

Whilst the woods burst into leaf