Out from Matelan’s castle she to the shore went riding;
Gu-drun they saw was coming, with well-bred maidens wont to do her bidding.
[1574]
Alighted from their horses, and standing on the sand,
Were Hilda and all her ladies. Then, leading by the hand
Gu-drun, the lovely maiden, came Irold, proud and knightly.
Though Hilda well had known her, yet now she knew her not, nor others rightly.
[1575]
Hilda, among the followers a hundred women saw;
She said: “I know not truly which one from me should draw