“Yea,” answered the King, “that will I: There shall go of my knightly array
Thirty thitherward riding.” For these did he send straightway;
And with that message he charged them, to bear it to Siegfried’s land.
Rich raiment to gladden their spirits received they of Brunhild’s hand.
“My knights, ye shall take this message from me”; thus spake the King;
“And of all wherewith I have charged you withhold not anything.
Say unto Siegfried the mighty, and unto my sister say,
That in all this world may no one be dearer to me than they.
And pray them to come to their kinsfolk here beside Rhine-river:
And for this unto them shall Brunhild and I be beholden ever.