Whereof this Queen made promise, and challenged thee herein?
Let us now full soon behold them, and know of the trial’s stress.”
—As nothing knowing of all things he spake in his wiliness.
Then spake that Daughter of Princes: “How might this marvel befall
That thou of the games, Lord Siegfried, hast witnessed nought at all,
Wherein was the victory given unto this King Gunther’s hand?”
Out spake and answered Hagen, the knight of Burgundia-land:
“Thou, Queen,” he said, “didst trouble our spirit exceedingly:
Therefore was Siegfried the good knight abiding by ship and sea
In the hour when the Lord of Rhineland overcame in the wooer’s play;