There must they be working full five years and a half.
Clothes for Hartmut’s followers they must wash and whiten:
Ne’er were maidens sadder; their toils before the castle nought could lighten.
Tale the Twenty-Second.
HOW HILDA MADE WAR TO BRING BACK HER DAUGHTER.
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We now will speak no longer of the toil the maidens bore
For knights as well as ladies. Queen Hilda evermore
Her thoughts to this had given how to win back her daughter,