Tale the Twenty-fourth.
HOW THEIR COMING WAS MADE KNOWN TO GUDRUN.
[1165]
Of them we speak no longer; we now will let you hear
Yet more about the maidens: how hope their lot did cheer
Who on a far-off seashore must wearily toil at washing:
Gu-drun and Hildeburg must wash all day on the sands where waves were dashing.
[1166]
’Twas the time of spring-tide fasting, and at the noon of day.
To them a swan came floating; thereat Gu-drun ’gan say:
“O bird so fair and lovely, such pain for me thou art feeling,