They to the sea intrusted four thousand of the dead;
This to them was toilsome, but Fru-te thus had bade.
The work that they were doing not as yet was ended;
Then in Ludwig’s castle the maid Ortrun was held, now ill-befriended.
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Two and sixty warriors and thirty maidens fair
With her were also taken. Then said Gu-drun: “Forbear!
The maids are in my keeping, my word to them I plighted:
Wâ-te may do as he wishes with the knights he seized, until my wrongs are righted.”
[1540]