For his sake must many a warrior forfeit a gallant life.
Of exceeding arrogant outrage now must the minstrel sing,
Yea, of revenge inhuman; for Hagen made them bring
The Netherland hero Siegfried, even his murdered kin,
Before a certain chamber—and Kriemhild lay therein!
Secretly there he laid him, before that door to lie,
That his wife might find his body when her feet came forth thereby
Unto mass in the grey dawn faring ere rising of the sun;
For thereof the Lady Kriemhild missed full seldom one.
Then heard they the bells as aforetime peal from the minster-tower;