“Be this your will,” said Gerlind, “angry no more I’ll be:

E’en if a thousand garments you thus had lost for me,

I would, in truth, forgive it; well you will have thriven

If to my son, young Hartmut, the Norman prince, your love at last be given.”

[1287]

Then said the lovely maiden: “I now would take some rest;

This care and heavy sorrow my strength doth sorely waste.

Send for the young King Hartmut, bid him be hither speeding,

And say, whate’er he wishes, that I henceforth will always do his bidding.”

[1288]