Warriors full seven hundred: our weal or woe they share,

And each for this is ready; if once in our hands we have you,

Know you nor fear nor sorrow lest we to meet wild Hagen’s wrath should leave you.”

[409]

He said: “From Hagen’s kingdom we wish forthwith to go;

Therefore beg your father the kindness to us to show,

Youthful, high-born maiden, that he and your queenly mother

Will deign our bark to look on; and you must also come, e’en if no other.”

[410]

“That will I do most gladly, if my father’s leave you have;