Should take to wife that maiden—meet bride for a king she were!
Who may withstand the issue that is doomed by fate to befall?
They summoned the Margrave’s daughter to appear before them in hall:
Then sware the father to give him the lovely damsel to wife,
And the Prince for his part hath pledged him to cherish her all his life.
To the maiden the Kings for her portion allotted castles and land;
And with oaths of confirmation by the noble Gunther’s hand
Was it sealed unto her, and by Gernot, that all should so be done.
Then spake her father: “Albeit castles have I none,
And I can but loyally prove me your friend for evermore,