In those days all that treasure Hagen by force had ta’en.
In the river-mere at Lochheim ’neath Rhine he sank it deep.
He sowed unto greed—but destruction was the fruit that his hands were to reap.
Now before that Hagen of Troneg thus hid the Treasure from sight,
Those kinsmen had sworn to each other an oath of awful might,
That, while in the land of the living they were, it should hidden abide;
So these could not use it, nor give it to any other beside.
Thereafter returned those princes with many a noble thane.
Then Kriemhild came before them of her grievous wrong to complain:
With her ladies she came and her maidens. The wrath of the earls flamed high: