Thou art welcome, my dead brother, For peace thou seekest here! [To the women whom he keeps away from the coffin by coming between them and it, while it is being set down.]
Be welcome too,
If you are seeking peace as Siegfried is.
[He holds up the cross before KRIEMHILD.]
Thou turn'st away from this most holy cross?
KRIEMHILD.
I come to ask for justice and for truth.
CHAPLAIN.
Thou seekest vengeance, and the Lord hath said,
Vengeance is mine. It is the Lord alone
Who sees what's hidden. He alone requites.
KRIEMHILD.
I am a woman, weak, half crushed to earth;
No warrior can I strangle with my hair.
What vengeance then is left for me, I pray?