(C) So entered the maid, nothing wotting of work whose fulfilment was nigh.

But first spake the son of Dankart to his knights that stood thereby:

“Help me at need, that my sister may take for her lord Siegfried.”

With one accord they answered: “In sooth ’twere a goodly deed!”

Then spake unto her King Gunther: “My sister, noble maid,

Let thy queenly blood and thine heart’s love for mine oath’s redemption aid.

I have pledged thine hand to a warrior; if thou take him for thy lord,

Then thou by thy loyal obedience hast redeemed my plighted word.”

Answered the noble maiden: “Heart’s dearest, brother mine,

Needs not that thou supplicate me: my will shall be even as thine.