The bodice clasped with jewels:—yet she whose lovely face

Outshone not all the splendour of her raiment might well be sad!

So fair a train of ladies never queen in the whole world had.

So when all those winsome ladies were arrayed in their bravery,

Then did the knights of their escort in eager haste draw nigh;

Yea, thither the thanes high-hearted came in a mighty throng

All bearing their shining bucklers and their ashen lances long.

X.
Of the strange Bridal of Gunther and Brunhild

Then gazed they across the Rhine-stream, and beheld on the farther shore

The King with his guests around him, which had drawn nigh theretofore;