We found Gu-drun and Hildeburg upon the seashore standing, washing in the water.”
[1342]
Soon were his kindred weeping, all who there were seen.
At this the aged Wâ-te right scornful was, I ween:
“Truly for women only is such behavior fitting;
Why you weep you know not. This, in a knight, one never should be meeting.
[1343]
“But if you are in earnest, to help Gu-drun in her need,
The clothes that she has whitened must you in war make red.
Erst white hands did wash them for men who must be bleeding;