Knowing him brave and daring, I would my lonely lot his care might waken.”

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“From Denmark sailing hither, Horant, your kinsman, comes;

He to war is leading his followers from their homes.

The banner of Queen Hilda aloft in his hand he is bearing;

’Tis thus the Hegeling warriors now the Norman Hartmut’s land are nearing.”

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Gu-drun then asked him further: “This would I also hear:

Lives Wâ-te still of Sturmland? If so, no more I fear.

We all might then be happy, if thou could’st this be telling,—