Whosoe’er be their lord, of a surety is their bearing proud and high.”
Then spake the valiant Siegfried: “Look keenly and closely now
On the faces of yonder maidens, and then confess to me thou
Which wouldst thou take, were the choosing accorded to thee as of right.”
“Yea, that will I,” answered Gunther, that keen and valiant knight.
“I mark, of all those fair ones, at yonder casement one;
It is she in the snow-white raiment: like unto her is there none.
She of mine eyes is the chosen: so sweet is her beauty’s pride,
That, an I might have the decision, it is she that should be my bride.”
“By the sight of the eyes hast thou chosen, and a fair choice have they found!