“Ah, many for this high greeting lie sorely hurt this day
By the hand of Siegfried stricken—for witness stand I here:—
God grant his face in Daneland may never more appear!”
Then the heralds cried that all folk should avoid to left and right
From the path of Kriemhild the lovely; and many a gallant knight
And warrior gently-nurtured in her train to the minster hied:
So for a space was parted the hero from her side.
So passed she into the minster with her maiden-company;
And the dim aisles shone with beauty so glorious to see,
That many a prayer dropped earthward that should to heaven aspire,