He who my life endangers himself the risk must share, whate’er befalleth.”
[247]
“For this I now am ready,” answered Horant the Dane;
“If leave the king will grant us, I then will shun no pain,
Nor aught of toil will grudge me. Only to see this lady,
For me and for my kinsman, were happiness enough, and bliss already.”
[248]
“Then we ought,” said Fru-te, “to take upon our way
Seven hundred warriors. No man doth honor pay
To Hagen without grudging. He is overweening, truly;