30. "'O Guest, a service of thee I pray:—

Wash from my courser the mire away.

31.[°] "'The saddle buckle which broke 'neath me—

The same, O Guest, will I give to thee.'

32. "Forth they rode to a river then.

No-one was there to look to the men.

33. "I washed his poitrail and breast for him,

His thigh, his leg, and each long limb.

34. "The noble courser I made full clean.