For this Gu-drun, my lady, her father lost, and still her lot is ruing.
[1080]
“My pledge and hearty greeting bear to your lady good;
No more the Norman Hartmut by me shall be allowed
To hold so long in bondage my own betrothéd maiden:
For me, of all, ’tis fittest to bring the lady home, our lives to gladden.
[1081]
“To Hilda and her kinsmen this answer you may say:
When Christmas time is over, on the sixth-and-twentieth day,
I will ride to the Hegelings, three thousand fighters taking.”