Let her share as she will her silver and her gold; unto me is it nought.”
To the King made answer Hagen: “Who suffers a woman to rule—
Be she who she may—such a treasure, of a surety he is but a fool.
She shall bring with all this largess a day upon us at the last
When all we bold Burgundians shall rue deeds overpast.”
Answered and spake King Gunther: “An oath unto her I swore
That sorrow or scathe would I visit upon her never more.
And thereunto will I hold me. My sister withal is she.”
Said Hagen: “Do thou nothing: be all the guilt upon me.”
So divers of her kinsmen were traitors again: they brake