His queenly wife said further: “Yet must we beware,
That he may bring no burden unto our kinsmen here.
This have many told me,— ’tis for the sake of your daughter
That he with many warriors has come into your borders, o’er the water.”
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Hettel with his kinsmen had waited a little too long:
The wrath of young King Herwic now had waxen strong.
In the cool of the early morning, he, with followers daring,
Reached King Hettel’s castle, and later with his men the strife was sharing.
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