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Hartmut sends messengers again to Gudrun to ask her hand, and threatens to take her by force if she still rejects his suit. She answers that she is betrothed to Herwic, and refuses him. Hartmut and Ludwig bring an army and capture the Hegeling castle, and carry away Gudrun with her handmaidens.
Now at Hartmut's bidding / heralds quickly rode / To where the queenly Hilda / and her daughter dear abode.