No, not in any country, as this that here we see.
He which could rear it skyward, a mighty man was he!”
Answered and spake to him Siegfried: “Yea, well do I know all these:
The land and its diadem fortress, they be Brunhild’s seignories,
And Isenstein yon fortress, even that whereof I have told:
There many a lovely lady this day shall your eyes behold.
Now hearken my counsel, ye heroes: be ye one and all in a tale,
And with one accord affirm ye—this only, I trow, shall avail:
For if to the presence of Brunhild this day we go, I ween,
We must needs be exceeding wary who stand before that queen.