Well pleased had been the Margrave, afar had they tarried thence.
On through the press fast riding he came to his retinue,
And he spake unto all his liegemen: “It must needs be known unto you
How chafed and ungentle of spirit the warriors of Rhineland be.
Ye therefore refrain from the tourney, and so shall ye pleasure me.”
So when these war-fain heroes had turned from the lists away,
Then came Thuringia’s champions, as telleth the ancient lay,
And valiant men from Daneland a thousand with these there were.
Then the shards of the shivered lances went leaping high through the air.
Into the ringing tourney Irnfried and Hawart rode,