“That I of my dear daughter such happy news have heard

Fills my heart with gladness, and with bliss o’erflowing.

How fares it with her followers, and Hildeburg, who long her love was showing?”

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Then spake the kingly Hagen: “Now in their land and home

All of them are happy; great hath our child become;

Ne’er, with us, were her maidens clothed in such fine dresses.

There we now must leave them: for her were many breastplates hacked to pieces.”