“Forasmuch as we of thine helping be most exceeding fain.”
He said, “Ere ye see me returning of a truth shall the days be few:
And this shall ye tell Queen Brunhild, that hence I was sent of you.”
VIII.
How Siegfried went to the Niblung Land for his Knights
So thence to the strand and the haven Siegfried hied him away
In the Hood of Darkness shrouded. Now a boat by the wharf-side lay,
And thereinto from men’s eyes hidden stepped Siegfried Siegmund’s son,
And he thrust it forth o’er the waters, as it were by a wind driven on.
Now no one beheld that steersman, though swift was the barge’s flight
Sped on by the strength of Siegfried, so passing-great was his might.