When came out of Hunland the heroes, she saw them joyful-eyed,
And with smiling lips of greeting the high-born maiden cried:
“Welcome be now my father, and ye his vassal-train!”
Thereat to their lord’s young daughter many a gallant thane
In knightly courtesy bent him, and rendered thank unto her.
Well knew the Lady Gotlind the mind of Rüdiger;
For when in the hush of the night-tide by Rüdiger’s side she lay,
With loving speech she questioned, and the Margravine bade him say
Whither away from Hunland by his lord the King he was sent.
“Gotlind my wife,” he answered, “I will tell to thee all his intent: