“Welcome, knight of Sturmland! bravely thou hast striven!
Who can e’er reward thee, unless to thee both land and crown are given?”
[1578]
He to the lady answered: “To help you all I may,
For that am I most willing, e’en to my latest day.”
Then, for love, she kissed him, and Ortwin thus she greeted.
Now came Herwic also, with proud and worthy knights, as him befitted.
[1579]
Ortrun, the Norman maiden, then by the hand he led.
Gu-drun besought her mother kindly to meet the maid: