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For a whole week she enjoyed the delight of her pleasant company undisturbed. They all sang, they danced, they played from morning to night; only the princess noticed that day by day the fresh young faces of her maidens grew pale and wan, and the mirror in the great marble hall showed her that she alone still kept her rosy bloom, while Brunhilda and the rest faded visibly.
I would cheerfully give him my watch and purse if they would content him. I might call out and rouse the house, but most likely Brunhilda in my situation would have held a parley. A good precedent. I sat up to show that I was awake, and in doing so recognized my old man.
There they lived more happily than I can tell. Now comes the sad part of the Nibelung tale. Brunhilda and Gunther invited Siegfried and Kriemhilda to visit them at Worms. During the visit the two queens quarreled and Brunhilda made Gunther angry with Siegfried. Hagen, too, began to hate Siegfried and wished to kill him.
"Promise not too much, my young Lord, for they may be called upon to perform sooner than they expect," said Brunhilda, with a significant glance at Wilhelm. The young man left the imperial presence, overjoyed to know that his mission had been successful.
Behind us the forward light of the Brunhilda glided and the binnacle lamp threw up a faint glow in which her black helmsman's face stood out mistily. O'Keefe had looked curiously a number of times at our tow, but had asked no questions. "You're not the only passenger we picked up today," I told him.
"The more shame, then, that you, who have fought bravely with men, should now turn your weapons against a woman, and she your neighbour and the sister of your friend." "Indeed, Lady Brunhilda, you misjudge me.
Have you an insufficiency of lands or of honours that you come to ask augmentation of either?" "I come to ask nothing for myself, your Majesty." "But to ask, nevertheless," said Brunhilda, with a frown. "Yes, your Majesty." "I hope I may live to see one man, like a knight of old, approach the foot of the throne without a request on his lips.
The moon was behind us and the Brunhilda was like a swanboat sailing down with the moonlight sending her, ja. "I heard my Freda say: 'I see a nisse coming down the track of the moon. And I hear her mother laugh, low, like a mother does when her Yndling dreams. I was happy that night with my Helma and my Freda, and the Brunhilda sailing like a swan-boat, ja.
Her name was Brunhilda, and she lived in Bohemia. She lived a gay and happy life, like most young princesses, till one day a handsome prince arrived at her father's palace. He was the son of the king of the Hartz country. "Of course, you can all guess what happened. The prince fell in love with the princess, and she returned his love.
When the last man had refreshed himself, the Count stepped forward and begged a flagon full that he might drink in such good company, and it seemed that Brunhilda had anticipated such a request, for she turned to one of her women and held out her hand, receiving a huge silver goblet marvellously engraved that had belonged to her forefathers, and plenishing it, she gave it to the Count, who, holding it aloft, cried, "The Lady of Bernstein," whereupon there arose such a shout that the troubled Archbishop heard it in his distant tent.
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