[1031]

Then did Hartmut answer: “What care I what they say?

If only you, fair lady, do not say me nay,

A king my men shall see me, and you my seat be sharing.”

Then said the maid to Hartmut: “That I should love you be you never fearing.

[1032]

“Well you know, Sir Hartmut, how with me it stands;

And all the wrong and sorrow I met with at your hands,

When far from home you carried me whom you had stolen,

And, wounded by your warriors, my father’s men erewhile in death had fallen.