I will wreak on him deadliest vengeance, so my Lord will but suffer me.”
So the heroes imagined mischief against him causelessly.
Yet further went none with the matter, save that Hagen ever and aye
In season and out of season, still unto Gunther would say:
“If but Siegfried live no longer, lordships many shall come
Under thine hand.” The spirit of the King was wrapped in gloom.
But awhile the matter rested. Men jousted even as before:
Strong spear-shafts many they shivered from afront of the minster-door
Up the broad green space to the palace, escorting Siegfried’s wife.
But of Gunther’s liegemen were many that lowered on the joyous strife.