Since we to fight have chosen, our hopes upon it staking,
The men of every princedom should forty well-built ships for us be making.”
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“I too will bid,” quoth Hilda, “that near the deep sea-flood
Twenty ships be builded, strong, and firm, and good;
And have them fully ready —my hest shall well be heeded—
To bear my friends and kindred to where they for the fight will soon be needed.”
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Siegfried, lord of Moorland, while their leave they took,
With kind and seemly bearing, thus to the women spoke: