When we see that lovely lady amidst her knightly train,
One thing, O far-famed heroes, must ye for truth maintain,
How that Gunther is my liege-lord, and I his vassal alone:
So that which his heart hath longed for shall by this device be won[[7]].”
Then the heroes all consented, even as he counselled, to do.
Was none so proud of spirit that he dared say nay thereto.
So they spake even after his bidding; and for them full well was it done,
When Gunther the King beheld her, Brunhild the lovely one.
“Thus I abase me,” said Siegfried, “not for thy love alone,
But to win thy sister, the fairest of maidens, for mine own.