This girl took care of Claes very well, and would not marry, though she was a beautiful maid, saying: “Since he is simple, I cannot leave him to look to himself.”
And every one, seeing her so stout-hearted, gave her, one some of his cheese, another some beans, another some flour, and so they lived together without wanting for food.
The Miserable stood still at the edge of the wood and sang. And the maid walked straight towards the singing and fell on her knees before him.
He went home to his castle, and she followed him, and entered in with him, saying no word.
On the stair he met his brother, just returned from boar-hunting, who said, in mocking wise:
“Ah, is the Miserable about to get us a bastard?” And to the girl: “Well, mistress, thy heart must be fast set on my ugly brother that thou must needs follow him in this wise, without a word spoken.”
But Halewyn, in a rage, hit out at his brother’s face with his sword.
Then, passing him by, went up into his own room.
And there, having shut fast the door, from fear of his brother, he stripped the girl quite naked, as he had seen the virgin in his vision. And the girl said that she was cold.
Quickly he opened her breast with the golden blade, under the left pap.