As I have had for any, or e’er in my life was feeling.
Should she to you be wedded, your bliss with her will be beyond all telling.”
[1622]
Then said her knightly brother: “If she to you is known,
And now you think the Hegelings will her for a mistress own,
Gladly will I love her,— a maid of such high-breeding.”
Him Gu-drun then answered: “You’ll ne’er a sorry day with her be leading.”
[1623]
Of this he spoke to others, but Hilda’s word was nay;
He told it unto Herwic, to hear what he would say,