Should have been in our midst unladen; or, if this too hard were found,
Nigher the good Rhine-water should have been our camping-ground.”
Made answer Hagen of Troneg: “My lords, and thou, O King,
I know where nigh to us lieth a cool-upwelling spring.
That ye be not indignant against me, I counsel that thither we go.”
—That rede unto many a hero was fraught with bitter woe!
Now by this was the good knight Siegfried with thirst-pangs sore distressed.
“Now thrust ye aside the table,” the hero cried to the rest;
“I will hence away to the hill-side, and drink thereby of the well.”
So all that counsel of treason as the false lords plotted befell.