Right glad to hear that saying was the heart of Kriemhild the bride.
Then spake she unto her husband: “How soon is thy mind to depart?
So hastily hence to be faring is nowise after mine heart,
Ere my brethren divide me my portion of the land of Burgundy.”
But vexed was the soul of Siegfried that such her desire should be.
Then came unto him the Princes, and with one voice spake all three:
“We do thee to wit, Lord Siegfried, that for aye are we bound unto thee
In loyalty of service, so long as life shall remain.”
Unto this their gracious tender low bowed that royal thane.
“We will give thee withal thy portion,” the young lord Giselher cried,