Pealed far through the aisles of the forest, telling to all their band
That now at the place of the trysting waited the lord of the land.
Then spake a hunter of Siegfried: “My lord, I hear the blast
Of a horn that giveth us token that now must all we haste
Back to the place of the trysting. Now will I answer thereto.”
Then long blasts crying “Where are ye?” to their fellow-hunters flew.
Made answer Siegfried the noble, “Now forth of the wood must we.”
Smoothly the good steed bare him, fast followed his company.
They roused with their crashing and clamour a forest-beast fierce-eyed,
A savage bear; and the hero unto them that followed cried: