Or wounds throughout our bodies, e’en to the heart, to take shall we be ready.”

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Then said to him King Hettel: “My men I now will send

With word to the lord of Sturmland; I do not fear the end,

For Wâ-te will hasten gladly wherever I shall bid him.

Bring Irold, too, from Friesland, with all his men, for sorely do I need him.”

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His riders then went quickly into the Sturmisch land,

Where the brave old Wâ-te they found among his band.

Then the word they gave him, now to the king to betake him;