With good knights twice five hundred hence shalt thou ride to the Rhine,
So through all thy stay in Burgundia shall royal honour be thine.”
Then spake the old king Siegmund, erewhile the Netherland’s Lord:
“Wouldst thou to a feast-tide, and tellest to me thereof no word!
Even I will be your companion, if this content you well,
And thanes of my train a hundred your guard-array shall swell.”
“If thou, O father beloved, wilt ride in our company,”
Made answer Siegfried the dauntless, “a joy shall it be unto me.
Ere twelve days have passed over, I ride forth out of our land.”
Then gave they horses and raiment unto all that should be of their band.