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The Hegelings return, and announce to Queen Hilda the death of her husband and their ill-success. They decide to wait till the young knights become old enough for war, and then to make a second campaign against the Normans.
The kinsmen of King Hettel / upon the sands had left / Many in death's fast keeping; never knights bereft / Their homeward way had taken, / hearts so sorry bringing.