Gladly with the maidens would they seven days have rested,
And there have made them lodgings; but every hope of this erelong was blasted.
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While on this isle forsaken Hartmut now must stay,
Loth were he and his followers the hope to put away,
Which till now they fostered, that they for rest might tarry
Throughout a week in the shelter whither they the maidens fair did carry.
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It was from far-off Matelan that Ludwig and his band
The fair Gu-drun had taken unto this lonely strand;