Tale the Seventeenth.
HOW HETTEL CAME TO THE WULPENSAND IN SEARCH OF HIS DAUGHTER.

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Ludwig, king of the Normans, and Hartmut, too, his son,

Now, with all their followers, far away had gone,

And on a lone, wild seashore, after their toil, were resting.

Though many there were gathered, yet little happiness they then were tasting.

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’Twas on a broad, low island, hight the Wulpensand,

That now the brave King Ludwig, and they of the Norman land,