Her care and kindness for them, on benches hard a pillow ne’er bestowing.

[1195]

Never Gu-drun, poor maiden, on a harder bed had lain;

All were tired with watching till day should dawn again.

They had but broken slumber; I ween, they oft bethought them

How soon the knights were coming, of whom the angel-bird the news had brought them.

[1196]

Soon as the morning lightened, Hildeburg the good,

Erst from Galicia stolen, at the window gazing stood;

All night she slept but little, but on her bed lay tossing.