Lo, I help thee to its fulfilment—may blessing thereof befall!”
Then sent he his word unto Kriemhild to come to the King in the hall[[9]].
With the train of her lovely maidens on to the hall she swept;
Then from the dais of honour Giselher lightly stept:—
“Now give ye command to the handmaids that backward they turn to their bower:
It befits that alone my sister commune with the King in this hour.”
Thither bring they the Lady Kriemhild where waiting doth Gunther stand,
And noble knights stood round him, and princes of many a land.
And now proclaimed they silence through the Hall of the Presence vast.
—In the midst of the hush Queen Brunhild to the feast-hall proudly passed.