Still my banner follow; that will show the way, and lead you rightly.”

[1112]

They asked of her, who held it; to this then answered she:

“He bears the name of Horant; a Danish lord is he.

His mother, Hettel’s sister, she it was who bore him;

Let him by you be trusted; forsake him not in fight with foes before him.

[1113]

“Never, my hardy warriors, must you forget my son,

Young Ortwin, dear-belovéd, to manhood nearly grown.

Of life the youth has numbered twenty years already;