Flashed out her answer Kriemhild: “Soon shall the issue be shown,
Since thou darest to claim my Siegfried for a vassal of thy throne!
By all the two Kings’ barons this day shall it be seen
If I dare or dare not enter the minster before the Queen!
I will show unto thee right plainly that noble am I and free!
I will prove my lord more worthy than thine may ever be!
Yea I, even I, will brook not thy malapert insults!—know,
This day shalt thyself behold it, how thy vassal—quotha!—shall go
In royal procession leading her knights in Burgundy.
Mine head shall be higher than ever it hath happed unto any to see