To keep both land and honor you may thus be seeking,

And of the hate we bore you none shall evermore a word be speaking.”

[1638]

“Who is it, say, fair lady, that you for me will choose?

Ere yet my love I give her, life would I rather lose

Than ever that my kinsmen her with scorn were eying;

For me it were far better that I in death upon the field were lying.”

[1639]

“I will give your sister Ortrun, the maid beloved and fair,

To be a wife to my brother, himself to me most dear.