We beg you first to tell us who this land doth own

“We beg you first to tell us who this land doth own? Whose are the castles also? By what name is he known Who leaves you without clothing, low tasks upon you laying? He may of his worth be boastful; that he doeth well no man may now be saying.”

To him Gu-drun thus answered: “Hartmut is one of the lords To whom these lands owe fealty. His castles well he guards, With Ludwig, king of the Normans, who is Hartmut’s father: And many knightly vassals, to keep their lands from foes, they round them gather.”