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.