Vassal-knights of Brunhild, each man with his sword in his hand,
Five hundred, yea more, it may be—for the guests an evil sight!
Then rose from their seats at her coming the Four, those men of might.
Now when that Daughter of Princes looked upon Siegfried’s face—
Would ye know of her greeting?—she bespake him with cold and stately grace:
“Now welcome be thou, O Siegfried, in thy coming to this my land.
What meaneth this your journey?—prithee, cause me to understand.”
“Exceeding thank do I render, O Daughter of Princes, to thee,
That thou deignest to greet me, Brunhild, Lady of Courtesy,
Before this knight hath been greeted, who standeth before me in place,