Then this warning gave they: that they their cup with blood would soon be filling.

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When they had heard this answer, back to the shore they went

Whence they had been by Hartmut upon their errand sent.

He then ran forth to meet them, to ask how they were treated,

And what had them befallen, and how his courtship by Gu-drun was greeted.

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Then one of them thus answered: “This to us they said:

The high and queenly maiden a lover long has had,

For whom, beyond all others, love in her heart she is feeling: