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;