If thou wilt fitly receive them, lay to thine hand straightway,
Lest they peradventure prevent us ere we ride from our towered home;
For guests so well-belovèd never to me have come.”
Forthwith she gave to the maidens and palace-dames her behest
To search out goodly raiment, of all their attire the best,
Wherein her retinue-royal in the presence of guests might shine:
And the same did they blithe-hearted, lightly may one divine.
Forth to the welcoming hasted all Gunther’s liegemen withal;
Yea, to ride with him to the greeting each man of his knights did he call.
There rode that Daughter of Princes in royal pomp to meet