How we sat at the feast of my bridal side by side at the board!
In sooth hath she chosen with honour Siegfried the brave for her lord.”
She lay on him sore in entreaty, that at last King Gunther said:
“Now know, that no guests more welcome my feast-hall floor could tread.
Lightly is gained thy petition: swift messengers of mine
Shall be sent unto them, to bid them come unto us by Rhine.”
Then spake that Daughter of Princes: “Now shalt thou tell unto me
When thou wilt send to bid them, and how many days shall it be
Ere come into this our kingdom the friends we love so well.
And whom thou wilt send to bid them unto me beforehand tell.”