For yet am I girt for the journey, and I ride full soon from your land.
Now if any man certainly knoweth, let him nowise hide the thing,
For this would I have one tell me, where may I light on your King,
Even Gunther the treasure-wealthy, Burgundia’s mighty lord.”
Then one that thereof well wotted spake out the answering word:
“If ye fain would behold that war-king, the wish may be lightly won.
In the wide fair hall of his palace I marked him a little agone
Begirt with his hero-vassals: thither to him go ye.
There many a noble warrior beside him shall ye see.”
But by this within his palace had the tale to the King been told