[1033]
“Well known to you ’tis also, —for this I mourn again,—
How my father, Hettel, was by your father slain.
Were I knight, and not a woman, he durst not come before me
Unless his weapons wearing. Why wed the man who from my kindred tore me?”
[1034]
For many years now bygone, it ever was the way,
No man should take a woman, and have her in his sway,
Unless they both were willing. Much praise for this is owing.
Gu-drun, the homeless maiden, her father’s loss still mourned, with tears o’erflowing.