Wâ-te loud was storming; then went he towards the hall

That stood before the gateway. On every side did fall

The din of sword-blades clashing, of groaning and of weeping.

Hartmut was in bondage; ill luck alone his liegemen, too, were reaping.

[1495]

With him were also taken eighty warriors brave;

The others all were slaughtered. Hartmut his life did save,

But to a ship was carried, and fast and long they kept him.

Not yet was sorrow ended; greater ills must they know who now bewept him.

[1496]