Hagen said to Hilda: “Elsewhere must we to-day

Find us rest and shelter; while others must not idly

Leave the dead thus lying, who burial scarce can wait, here scattered widely.”

[544]

Hettel begged King Hagen with him to his home to go;

Though loath, to this he yielded, as soon as he came to know

That he, the king of the Hegelings, of many lands was owner:

Hagen then with his daughter went with him to his home, and there had honor.

[545]

The youthful knights were singing, as they left the field.