(C) Toiled also the palace-maidens in many a fair device:
They broidered the costly loomwork, and many a gem of price
They set in the midst of the gold thread, that far its splendour shone.
Was none but thanked them and praised them as they cunningly laid them thereon.
XIII.
How they Fared to the Feast-tide
From the tale of their diligent toiling awhile refraineth the song,
And telleth how Lady Kriemhild and all her handmaid-throng
Set forth from the land of the Niblungs to the realms by Rhine to fare.
Never such wealth of royal vesture did horses bear:
For with many a casket and coffer they laded the sumpter-train.