His many fighters thither; he from afar had come, to Herwic speeding.
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Friends were they to each other; so both would meet the foe.
These, the men from Moorland, bold themselves did show:
One saw by all their bearing they would from none be flying;
Those who with them struggled by hardest toil must their reward be buying.
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Wâ-te, the very daring, with all his knights had come;
Gu-drun, the lovely lady, had called him from his home
To help her lover, Herwic, and a host had ridden hither: