Yet sure might I well deserve it, that ye fairly entreat your guest.”
Then spake from his place at the table the King with guileful breast:
“For this will we yet make atonement, this one day’s oversight.
Blameworthy is Hagen only, who would slay us with thirst outright.”
Made answer Hagen of Troneg: “My lord and master dear,
I weened that to-day our hunting should have been afar from here
In the forest of the Spessart, and thither the wine I sent.
If to-day ye be wineless, hereafter shall your hearts be well content.”
Made answer Siegfried the noble: “Small thank for thy promise have thou!
Of mead and of wine of the clearest seven sumpter-loads even now