Then said Hilda’s daughter: “Now shut for me the door.”

They barred the ladies’ bedroom with heavy bolts full four:

The room was shut so tightly that what therein was doing,

However much one listened, outside he nought could hear, nor might be knowing.

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Awhile they all were seated, merrily drinking wine;

Then said Gu-drun, the queenly: “Dearest maidens mine,

You well may now be happy, after your heavy sorrow:

Your friends I soon will show you; on gladsome sights your eyes shall feed to-morrow.

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