Let me as thy treasure-warder tarry still on the sea:
Here will I bide with the women, and guard their costly array
Till unto the land Burgundian we have brought them on their way.
Not so; pray rather Siegfried to bear this message for thee:
Well can he do thine errand with wisdom and courtesy.
If he haply be loth for the journey, in kingly-courteous wise
Entreat him in kindly fashion by the love in thy sister’s eyes.”
Then unto the knight sent Gunther, and he came before the King;
And he said to him: “Nigh are we gotten to my land in our journeying;
And now to my dear-loved sister would I send a messenger,