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They that had the hardihood, and sprang down on him from the stairs, he smote so fiercely with his sword that they fell back for fear. With his strength he had done right wonderly. Thirty-Third Adventure How Dankwart Brought the News to His Masters Then bold Dankwart strode in through the door, and bade Etzel's followers void the way; all his harness was covered with blood.
Piper suggests, that perhaps a Scotchman is meant, as "Skorottan" appears in the "Thidreksaga", chap. 28, as an ancient name of Scotland. "Gibecke", "Ramung" and "Hornbog", see Adventure XXII, notes 4 and 5. "Nudung", see Adventure XXVII, note 3. "Ortlieb". In the "Thidreksaga" Etzel's son is called Aldrian.
Many a true lover was torn from his loved one's arms by King Etzel's wife. King Uta's sons had a liegeman bold and true. When he saw they would forth, he spake to the king secretly, "Much I grieve that thou goest to this hightide." Rumolt was his name, a chosen knight. He said, "To whom wilt thou leave thy folk and thy land? Alack! that none can turn you knights from your purpose!
Doughty Giselher spake then to his sister: "Whenever, lady, thou shouldst need me, when aught doth trouble thee, let me but know, and I will ride in thy service to Etzel's land." Those who were her kin she kissed upon the mouth. Lovingly they took their leave of Margrave Rudeger's men.
The Huns went to their lodging. Meanwhile, the great king had sent for his friends, and noble Gunther asked his men how the message pleased them. And many of them began to say that he might well ride into Etzel's land. The best among them counselled him thereto all save Hagen. Him it irked exceedingly. He said to the king apart, "Ye strike at your own life. Surely you know what we have done.
The tarrying irked Kriemhild's envoys sore, for great was their fear of their lord. Daily they craved leave to go; this Hagen would not grant through craftiness. To his master he spake: "We should well guard against letting them ride away, until we ourselves fare forth a sennight later to Etzel's land. If any beareth us ill will, the better shall we wot it.
An' thou comest to the Huns, thou wilt be sore deceived. Time is, that thou shouldst turn again, for ye heroes be bidden, that ye may die in Etzel's land. Whose rideth hither, hath taken death by the hand." Answered Hagen: "Ye deceive us needlessly. How might it come to pass that we should all die there, through anybody's hate?" Then gan they tell him the tale still more knowingly.
Nor may Lady Kriemhild then make ready that through any plan of hers, men do us harm. An' this be her will, she'll fare full ill, for many a chosen liegeman had we hence." Shields and saddles, and all the garments that they would take with them to Etzel's land, were now full ready for many a brave man-at-arms. Now men bade Kriemhild's messengers go before King Gunther.
He who would have gold, let him bethink him of my sorrows, and I'll ever be his friend." "Of yore", see Adventure 23, note 2. There, chap. 369, he is Gotelind's brother, but in "Biterolf" and the "Rosengarten" he is her son. "Marks", see Adventure V, note 5. ADVENTURE XXVIII. How The Burgundians Came To Etzel's Castle.
They that had not swords seized the benches, and caught up the stools from the floor. The squires of Burgundy were not slow to answer them. With these they dinted many a helmet. The homeless youths made grim defence. They drave the armed me from the house. Yet five hundred and more lay therein dead. They were red and wet with blood. This heave news reached Etzel's knights.
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