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Said the King of Denmark then, "By reason of this high greeting many good men lie low, slain by the hand of Siegfried, the which hath been proven to my cost. God grant he return not to Denmark!" Then they ordered to make way for fair Kriemhild. Valiant knights in stately array escorted her to the minster, where she was parted from Siegfried.
Gunther, too, seemed happy to welcome Siegfried. 'Now that there is peace we will go a-hunting, he said to the hero. Now this hunt had been planned by Hagen. Then Siegfried went to say farewell to his beautiful wife ere he rode away to the hunt. But Kriemhild clung to him, begging her dear lord not to leave her. She longed to warn him, too, against Hagen, yet this she did not dare to do.
"That will I well, dear my lady," Hagen then replied. The lady weened that it would boot him aught, but Kriemhild's husband was thereby betrayed. Hagen then took leave; merrily he hied him hence. The king's liegeman was blithe of mood. I ween that nevermore will warrior give such false counsel, as was done by him when Kriemhild trusted in his troth.
In after days fair Kriemhild became strong Siegfried's wife. Then spake the mighty king: "Dear sister mine, without thy help it may not be. We would go for knightly pastime to Brunhild's land, and have need of princely garb to wear before the dames." Then the noble maiden answered: "Dear brother mine, I do you now to wit, that whatever need ye have of help of mine, that stand I ready to give.
Siegfried waxed restless, for he had come not to feast but to hunt, and he desired to be home again with Kriemhild. Ha, comrades, he cried; who will into the forest with me and rouse the game? Then, said the crafty Hagen, let us find who is the best sportsman.
Neither is my word idle; for they both said, when I saw them first, and the king vanquished me in the sports, and on knightly wise won my love, that Siegfried was his man. Wherefore I hold him for a vassal, since I heard him say it." Then Kriemhild cried, "Evil were my lot if that were true. How had my brothers given me to a vassal to wife? Prithee, of thy courtesy, cease from such discourse."
Great was the grief of Kriemhild when she learned of the murder of her husband, whose body had been placed at her very door by the remorseless Hagen. He and the rest of the Burgundians pretended that Siegfried had been slain by bandits, but on their approach the wounds of Siegfried commenced to bleed afresh in mute witness of treachery.
Then the gentle Kriemhild forgot her gentle ways, and bitter to Queen Brunhild's ears were the words she spoke. 'My royal brother is neither strong nor brave as is my lord, she cried. 'Dost thou not know that Siegfried it was, not Gunther, who vanquished thee in the contests held at thy castle in Isenland?
But Giselher, Kriemhild's youngest brother, heard that Siegfried was making ready to leave the royal city, and he begged him to stay. 'Tarry here a little longer, he said, 'and each day, when toil or sport is over, thou shalt see my fair sister, Kriemhild. 'Bid my steed be taken back to its stall, then cried the happy knight, 'and hang my shield upon the wall.
Folker, the bold minstrel, is one." "I had made shift to do without Folker," said the king's wife. "Hagen I esteem; he is a good knight. I am right glad that wee shall see him here." Then Kriemhild went to the king, and spake to him right sweetly, "How doth the news please thee, dearest lord? All my heart's desire shall now be satisfied." "Thy will is my pleasure," answered the king.
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