Tale the Second.
HOW HAGEN SLEW THE GRIFFIN.
[67]
Of how their stay was ended I will speak no longer here;
Now I tell you further of the rushing flight in the air,
That the child with the angry griffin far away was bearing.
For this his friends and kinsmen long in their hearts were heavy sorrow wearing.
[68]
Because the Lord so willed it the child was not yet dead;