Now some may well ask (and I myself ask it too): 'Where are God and Right now, Tristan's comrades-in-arms? Are they going to help him, I wonder? Their company has taken heavy punishment, yet they are slow to put in an appearance. If they do not come soon they will be too late: so let them come quickly! Here are two men riding against four, they are fighting for their lives, which are in jeopardy.

Gottfried's Tristan