She is unto me as mine own soul, she is dear unto me as my life.
Blithe am I to render service that shall get her to me for wife.”
VII.
How the Warrior-maid was won to be Gunther’s Bride
Now while thus they communed, their galley fled onward, and drew nigh
To that seaward-fronting castle; and now did the King espy
High up at the open casements full many a maiden fair,
And his spirit within him was troubled that he wist not who they were.
Then of his comrade Siegfried straightway questioned he:
“Look upon yonder maidens, and say, be they known unto thee,
Even they which be downward gazing o’er the sea as we draw anigh?