“Be it known unto all my lovers and all my folk this day
That from this hour forward Siegfried the crown of my lordship shall wear.”
And with joy that proclamation did the men of the Netherland hear.
Unto Siegfried his crown he committed, his land, and the power of the sword.
Henceforth was he lord and master: as he spake in judgment’s award,
As he visited for transgression, his word was the whole land’s law,
So that under the lord of Kriemhild all men bowed down in awe.
In the midst of such high honour he lived—this witness is true—
Doing crowned kings’ judgment and justice, till onward the tenth year drew.
And now to the fair Queen Kriemhild was born at the last a son