She begged them then to tell her: “What boon to seek had brought them o’er the water?”
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All the men of Hartmut before their seats yet stood,
As well-bred men beseemeth, and errand-bearers should.
Then they told the ladies what they would there be doing,—
That for their master, Hartmut, they for the fair Gu-drun had come a-wooing.
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The high-born maiden answered: “Of this I nought will hear,—
That with the young King Hartmut I the crown should share,
Before our friendly kinsmen, and troth to him be plighted: