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;