You must wed with Hildeburg, of a king the well-born daughter:

Never a dearer maiden you in the world could find, where’er you sought her.”

[1640]

“If this indeed may happen,” then young Hartmut said,

“And now your brother Ortwin shall take that lovely maid,

My dear-loved sister, Ortrun, and she to him is wedded,

Then I will woo fair Hildeburg; thus hate will end, nor longer shall be dreaded.”

[1641]

She said: “To this I’ve brought him; his troth to her he gave.

If now ’twould make you happy your father’s lands to have,