For with that which I share among you is given mine heart’s whole love.”
Then answered the lords of Daneland there as they stood in hall:
“Or ever aback to the homeland we ride delivered from thrall,
Assure to us peace abiding: thereof is our need full sore,
Seeing many our friends down-stricken by your friends shall rise no more.”
Now by this from his hurts recovered was Lüdegast the Dane,
And the Lord of the land of the Saxons was whole from the battle again,
Albeit some of their warriors must they leave in a strange land dead.
Then went King Gunther to Siegfried, and drew him apart, and he said:
“Now give me herein thy counsel”—thus spake he unto the knight—