Else would he aye go scatheless, that good and valiant man.”
“O Lady, if this thou fearest,” in his subtlety Hagen replied,
“Lest in battle he haply be wounded, then unto me confide
How best I may devise it, such peril to withstand;
Then for his warding ever will I ride full near at hand.”
She answered, “Thou art my kinsman, and of blood am I near unto thee.
I commit my lord, my belovèd, to thy faith and thy fealty,
That for my sake o’er my belovèd the shield of protection thou hold.”
Then to Hagen revealed she a story that had better been left untold.
For she said, “My lord is fearless, and the strongest man of men;