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Updated: May 3, 2025
"I must own to you, Edchen" he had accustomed himself, in loving confidence, to call his young friend by that childlike name "I must own to you that hitherto, when I have thought that you might perhaps be journeying with me to the tournament held in honour of the fair Hildegardis, a heaviness came over my heart.
"Edchen," answered Froda, with a smile, "my gentle, loving youth, see you not that I already wear on my breastplate the image of a liege lady? I strive but for renown in arms, and not for your fair Hildegardis!" "MY fair Hildegardis!" answered Edwald, with a sigh. "That she is not, nor ever will be or should she, ah! Froda, it would pierce your heart.
"Yes, it was me she named," answered Froda; "and not in vain she named me. Aslauga, thy knight comes, and enters the lists, and all for thee and thy reward alone! At the same time, my Edchen, we will win for you your haughty bride."
"For well I know that she scorns not my service; she has even deigned sometimes to appear to me. Oh, I am in truth a happy knight and minstrel!" "And yet your silence to-day your troubled yearnings?" "Not troubled, dear Edchen; only so heartfelt, so fervent in the depth of my heart and so strangely mysterious to myself withal.
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