“If ye ride forth a-hunting, I will gladly go with you.
So ye will but lend me a huntsman who shall rouse the quarry for me,
And therewithal some sleuth-hounds, to the forest will I with thee.”
“One huntsman wilt thou only?” King Gunther straightway replied.
“I will lend thee four, an it please thee, which know from side to side
The forest and all the wood-ways, and every wild thing’s lair,
Lest thou err from the path unknowing when campward at even we fare.”
Then rode the hero to Kriemhild, and told to her everything,
The while that the tale of Hagen was told in the ears of the King,
Even all his deadly devising against that noble thane:—