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,