That men could bring your sister, if this by us were needed,
Here to my mother’s kingdom, that she to the lord of Karadie may now be wedded?”
[1652]
To her King Herwic answered: “This will I say to you:
Your men, if they will hasten, in twelve days’ time can go;
But if any to your kingdom the maiden would be leading,
Ill luck, I ween, awaits him, unless with him my own good knights be speeding.”
[1653]
Then answered Hilda’s daughter: “Your help, I beg you, grant;
By doing this, of happiness you nought shall ever want.