But still by high-born warriors the maid was not unsought.

Let pride be ne’er so lofty, as we have long been taught,

There always is another with just as high a bearing;

While to win her kindness his yearning grows, and his toil he is never sparing.

Tale the Fifth.
HOW WÂ-TE WAS SENT TO IRELAND AS A SUITOR.

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Hettel was lord in Daneland; to be its king he rose;

’Twas in the Sturmisch marches, as many a one well knows;

There abode his kindred, who ways of honor taught him.