However hard the winter, still in snow and rain

My clothes must you be washing, altho’ cold winds are blowing;

So will you be wishing that you the warmth of heated rooms were knowing.”

[1065]

Unwillingly she waited until the night drew near;

From this Gu-drun the high-born gained at last some cheer.

Then into her bedroom went Hildeburg in sorrow;

There they wept together for the work that they must do upon the morrow.

[1066]

Then the Lady Hildeburg said to her in tears: