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Forsooth King Etzel should never be their friend again. Many of those who so basely eat the lording's bread, and now desert him in the greatest need, do I see stand here as cravens, and yet would pass for brave. May shame ever be their lot!" ADVENTURE XXXV. How Iring Was Slain.
Both Etzel and Kriemhild came. The land all round was theirs, and many had joined their host. Etzel said to the guests, "What would ye with me? Haply ye seek for peace. That can hardly be, after such wrong as ye have done me and mine. Ye shall pay for it while I have life. Because of my child that ye slew, and my many men, nor peace nor truce shall ye have."
At this Dame Kriemhild's spirits rose. Then Sir Rudeger spake to the queen: "Lady, here will I receive the high-born king; whomso I bid you kiss, that must ye do. Forsooth ye may not greet alike King Etzel's men." From the palfrey they helped the royal queen alight. Etzel, the mighty, bode no more, but dismounted from his steed with many a valiant man. Joyfully men saw them go towards Kriemhild.
They found King Etzel in the town of Gran. Greeting after greeting they gave the king, of which full many had been sent him. He blushed for very joy. Happy of mood was the queen, when she heard the tale aright that her brothers should come into the land. She gave the minstrels great gifts as meed. This was done for honor's sake.
She greeted there enow who later came through her to grief. Before Etzel there rode a retinue, merry and noble, courtly and lusty, full four and twenty princes, mighty and of lofty birth. They would fain behold their lady and craved naught more. Duke Ramung of Wallachia, with seven hundred vassals, galloped up before her; like flying birds men saw them ride.
However fain I would make for peace, the king will not consent, for he seeth ever more and more the sufferings of his men." Then the good Knight Rudeger sent to Dietrich, if perchance they might turn the fate of the high-born kings. The king of Berne sent answer: "Who might now forfend? King Etzel will let none part the strife."
Ha! what sports they drave for the glory of the king! Etzel exhorted his Huns to do as honour bade. Then they rode from Tulna to the town of Vienna. There they found many women featly adorned, that received Etzel's wife with much worship. All that they needed was there in plenty, and the heroes rejoiced against the festival. Lodging was given them, and the king's hightide began merrily.
The king did prudently, and called a counsel, to ask his friends whether it seemed good to them that Kriemhild should take King Etzel to husband. And they all counselled it save Hagen, that said to Gunther, the bold knight, "If thou be wise, thou wilt see to it that she do it not, even if she desire it." "Why should I hinder it?" said Gunther. "If any good fall to the queen, I may well grant it.
She said, "Remember, Rudeger, thy faith, and thine oath to avenge all my hurt and my woe." The Margrave answered, "I have never said thee nay." Etzel began to entreat likewise. They fell at his feet. Sore troubled was the good Margrave. Full of grief, he cried, "Woe is me that ever I saw this hour, for God hath forsaken me.
One life for a number of lives the sacrifice of a single aeroplane for a costly dirigible that was an exchange in favor of the Browns. And Etzel had taken an oath in his heart not standing on a café table that he would never let any dirigible that he attacked escape. "Into it! Making sure! Oh, splen O!" cried the artillery commander. A ball of lightning shot forth sheets of flame.
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