For this will be heard the weeping of many a mother’s child, in the land now living.
[1086]
“I bid you now, moreover, to say unto the queen,—
Ere many days are ended, in her land will I be seen;
Tell her that my wishes all to war are bending,
And soon ten thousand warriors from out the Danish land will I be sending.”
[1087]
The men sent there by Hilda of Horant took their leave:
They sped to the Waalisch marches, and found Morunc the brave
With all his men about him, a margrave rich and daring.