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Any more Cids, or Songs of Roland, or Nibelungens, or Kalewalas are out of the question, nay, anything at all like them; for the necessary insulation of race, of country, of religion, is impossible, even were it desirable.
Yet no word of displeasure spoke he, nor seemed he to understand that any mischief was brewing; for he feared neither force nor guile. So he bade his Nibelungens to begin their homeward march, saying that he and Kriemhild, and the ladies of her train, would follow swiftly on the morrow.
There a pleasant sight met his eyes: for the little bay was white with the sails of a hundred gold-beaked vessels which lay at anchor; and on the sandy beach there stood in order three thousand island warriors, the bravest and the best of all the Nibelungens, clad in armor, and ready to hear and to do their master's bidding.
"Tell me, now, your name, I pray," said the dwarf; "for I must give an account of this adventure to my master when he comes." "Who is your master?" "His name is Siegfried; and he is king of the Nibelungens, and lord, by right, of the great Nibelungen Hoard.
And all the place was filled with a goblin bustle, trollish racketings, ringing of gnomish anvils, clanging of kobold forges a clamorous cavern filled with metal Nibelungens. We came to the opening of another passage, a doorway piercing the walls of the workshop. Its incline, though steep, was not dangerous. Into it we stepped; climbed onward it seemed interminably.
"I will lead my brave Nibelungens against them, and they shall learn how serious a thing it is to break an oath, or to return treason for kindness." The news soon spread through all the town and through the country-side, that Leudiger and Leudigast, with fifty thousand men, were marching into Burgundy, and destroying every thing in their way. And great flight and confusion prevailed.
His head is crowned with sear and yellow leaves, and long white moss hangs pendent from his brows and cheeks, and his garments are rusted with age. "Who is this Fenris-wolf?" asked one of the Nibelungens as they rode through the solemn shadows of the wood.
My kingdom would fare better were a younger ruler placed over it. Take my crown, I pray you, and let me withdraw from kingly cares." But Siegfried would not listen to such an offer. He had his own kingdom of the Nibelungens, he said; and, besides, he would never sit on his father's throne while yet that father lived.
And of all the noble folk who had ever sat at Gunther's table, or hunted in the Burgundian woods, none were so worthy or so fair as the proud young lord of the Nibelungens. One day in early autumn a party of strange knights rode up to the castle, and asked to speak with the Burgundian kings.
It was arranged, that, in the march against the North-kings, Siegfried with his Nibelungens should take the lead; while Hagen, with a picked company of fighting-men, should bring up the rear.
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