The burden of this sore travail: this rede remaineth the best,
Seeing he hath alone clear knowledge of Brunhild’s perilous test.”
Said the King, “O Siegfried belovèd, mine helper wilt thou fare
In my wooing of Brunhild the lovely? Do according to this my prayer,
And if for my bride I win her, and crown her my queenly wife,
For thee at all times will I venture honour and limb and life.”
Answered him Siegfried, the scion of Siegmund the Lowland’s lord:
“This will I do, if thou promise to give me for reward
The Lovely, the Queen of Women, Kriemhild thy sister, for bride:
For my toil for thee nor guerdon nor thank I desire beside.”