I saw those knightly sailors; each with even stroke to his oar was bending.”

[1175]

She said: “This tell me also, if ’tis known to thee,

Whether Morunc and Irold are now upon the sea,

And hither come to seek me; the truth I fain would gather.

Gladly I would see them, for they are kin to Hettel, who was my father.”

[1176]

To her the bird thus answered: “That can I tell you, too;

Morunc, and with him Irold, I saw, in search of you.

They to this land are coming; their help will soon be given