In all the rest of the wide world other place was there none
Wherein he had rested so gladly; and now none said him nay,
But he looked on the beauty of Kriemhild ever day by day;
For the sake of her measureless fairness he could not choose but stay.
In many a pleasant pastime they wore the hours away.
Only he felt love’s torment, he knew none other care.
—Ah me, but the days were coming when she should be his death-snare!
VI.
How they Voyaged on Love-quest to Isen-land
Now over the Rhine came a story of none heard theretofore,
A tale of the marvellous beauty of maids on a far-away shore.