Wherefore they walked not together side by side as of old.
—Thence came unto many a baron affliction manifold.
Even as in front of the minster the wife of Gunther stood,
And the gallant knights Burgundian made sport in frolic mood
With them of the Queen’s train-royal, fair dame and winsome maid,
Came thither the Lady Kriemhild with her troop all splendour-arrayed.
What raiment soever the daughter of a noble knight might wear,
By the gorgeous attire of her maidens had all been as empty air.
Her wealth was so all-unmeasured that wives of kings thrice ten
Never had shown such splendour as was flaunted by Kriemhild then.