Lo, I prove it again by the girdle which compasseth my waist.
Not I am the liar!—by Siegfried first was thy body embraced.”
Fair-plaited of silk of the Orient was the girdle that she ware,
With precious stones thick-studded, a marvel passing fair.
That Brunhild beheld, and she brake forth into stormy weeping then,
Crying, “This shall be known of Gunther and of all his mighty men!”
Then spake the Queen of Rhineland: “Send unto me straightway
Gunther the Lord of the Kingdom, for he shall hear this day
How foully his sister hath slandered and spoken shame of the Queen.
She saith before all people that Siegfried’s wife have I been.”