Came Horant with four thousand, to whom the fair Gu-drun had sent her warning.

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From out the Waalisch marches Morunc thither rode;

He ever fought for the ladies, for the love to them he owed.

Twenty thousand warriors he brought,—for nought he tarried:

These were all well-weaponed, and happily rode, while help to the king they carried.

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The queenly maiden’s brother, Ortwin, the youthful knight,

Brought across the water, to help her in the fight,

Forty hundred warriors, or even a number greater: