Their oath; they robbed the widow, and her mighty wealth did they take.
Seized by the hand of Hagen were the keys that warded the same.
Wroth was her brother Gernot, when he knew that deed of shame.
Spake Giselher the young Prince: “Foul wrong hath been done herein
By Hagen unto my sister: I will none of the shame and the sin!
Yea, he, were he not my blood-kin, should forfeit for this his life!”
Brake forth afresh into weeping Siegfried’s unhappy wife.
Then spake again Prince Gernot: “Or ever such mischief befall
Unto us for the sake of the Treasure, it were well that we sank it all
In the waters of Rhine, to the end that the curse may cleave unto none!”