We must not reward with evil him who a wrong is doing.
Of your worthy name bethink you; you should on Hartmut smile, forgiveness showing.”
[1596]
She answered: “Dearest daughter, you do not ask aright:
I at the hands of Hartmut the greatest ills have met;
He must atone in bondage for all his wrongful dealing.”
Then at the feet of Hilda Gu-drun fell down, with sixty maidens, kneeling.
[1597]
Then spake the lady Ortrun: “In freedom let him live;
To you will he be faithful, for this my word I give.