These should again be given to those we ill have treated;
That when new strifes we’re waging, a better luck to us may then be meted.”
[932]
The weeping Hilda answered: “’Tis best that this be done;
Ever is it fitting that men for misdeeds atone.
To steal the goods of pilgrims is a sin not lightly shriven:
For every mark we’ve taken, to them three marks of silver shall be given.”
[933]
The ships were brought to the pilgrims, as the queen did say;
Not one there was among them, when they sailed away,