With her beauteous daughter; and many a lady lovely-faced
Upon this side and that was standing, and many a winsome maid
In carcanet and bracelet and queenly apparel arrayed.
Gleamed many a precious gemstone casting afar its sheen
Forth of their costly vesture—ah, fair were they to be seen!
Forward the guests came riding; from selle sprang they to the earth,—
What knightly grace and courteous showed they of Burgundian birth!
There were six-and-thirty maidens, and many a dame beside.
Fair to all heart’s desiring were the women lovely-eyed
That with many a valiant warrior to meet the strangers came: