When he marked how no King Gunther was there by Siegfried’s side:
“Now welcome to thee, Lord Siegfried! I beseech thee, tell this thing,
Where left ye in your departing my brother, Gunther the King?
The mighty strength of Brunhild, I fear me, hath reft him from us;
So for us should his princely wooing have issue dolorous.”
“Cast to the winds your foreboding: to you and to all true friends
My noble comrade in emprise his loving service sends.
Whole and unharmed I left him: unto you was I sent of your Lord
That I should come with the tidings his messenger hitherward.
Now lend me your aid, to the end that this grace unto me may fall