So high I do not hold me that I the task should spurn.
Thus shall I be earning the food I here am eating;
Nought I say against it.” The poor Gu-drun her lot was wisely meeting.
[1057]
Then by a washerwoman clothes to the sands were brought,
And how to wash and dry them the maiden now was taught.
Much at first she sorrowed, and by the work was flurried,
Yet was she spared by no one. So was the fair Gu-drun by Gerlind worried.
[1058]
Before King Ludwig’s castle, she gained a skilful hand;