Me do the Dane and the Saxon again unto battle defy.
With their war-hosts now be they minded to ride into Burgundy-land.”
Answered the aweless Hero: “Their onset shall Siegfried’s hand,
As best befitteth your honour, meet in the battle’s strain.
That I did to the kings aforetime, shall now be done yet again:
I will ravage their land and their strongholds beneath the spoiler’s tread
Or ever from war I refrain me: hereon will I stake mine head.
As for thee, do thou and thy liegemen here in the homeland stay.
Let me ride forth against them with mine own war-array.
That I render you service gladly, shall ye and all men see.