He hath visited on my body in sorest chastisement

My folly of speech in stirring the Queen unto angry mood:

He hath verily well avenged her, that noble knight and good.”

“Yet a little while, and atonement shall she accept of thee,”

He said, “dear Lady Kriemhild: now I pray thee, tell unto me

In what wise I may do thee service through Siegfried thy lord and thy knight.

None living would I, O lady, for thy kindness so gladly requite.”

“For him were I wholly dreadless,” made answer Siegfried’s wife,

“Lest any in storm of battle should imperil mine hero’s life,

Were it not for his reckless defying of danger in battle’s van;