So he gave to his war-thanes freely so much as they lacked, nay, more.
How much he lavished soever, unminished still was his store.
Lo, in the dimness of dawning forth on the sea they fare:
—Ho for the eager warriors that Siegfried had gathered there!—
With goodly battle-horses and lordly attire sailed they:
So unto the land of Brunhild they came, a knightly array.
On her battlements many a fair one stood gazing over the sea.
Then spake that Daughter of Princes: “Knoweth any man who they be
Whom yonder I see far fleeting o’er the waters in gallant show?
How rich be the sails that waft them!—they be whiter than driven snow!”