THE FINAL ELEMENT in the bridal quest structure, the rewarding of those who helped the wooer win his bride (S.-C. §C.2.h), takes on particular significance in König Rother. Rother not only grants great fiefs to his chief vassals — men and giants — to recompense them directly for their aid in his quest, but also provides them with a living guarantee that their futures will be secure for the long term. The depth of Rother's gratitude to his men for their loyalty is underscored visually when he falls at their feet in the ritual gesture of supplication (line 4806), in order to persuade them not to depart the court before he has repaid their service with his generosity. In serving Rother they have both directly and indirectly served themselves and their heirs, for the second homecoming of the bride has accomplished that which the first (§C.1.d) did not: permanently resolving the dynastic crisis that first prompted Rother's younger vassals to suggest that he find an appropriate wife and provide the Roman kingdom with a legitimate heir.

On the very day of their return from Constantinople Rother's wife bears him that longed-for heir, whose birth was foreshadowed in line 3483, when, at the low point of the narration, following the deceptive and fleeting success of the initial bridal quest, the narrator indicated that Rother's second quest, to retrieve his abducted pregnant wife from her father (§C.2.c), would indeed succeed.