There still in a giant coffin lies the Hero chivalrous-souled.
(C) But it came to pass at the season when Kriemhild should have gone
To dwell with her mother, even as her will was to have done,
In Worms must she tarry, forbidden to rest by the hallowed shrine.
So was it by reason of tidings that came from afar over Rhine.
XX.
How Queen Kriemhild was Wooed for the King of the Huns
It befell in the selfsame season, when the Lady Helka had died,
And Etzel the King would be wooing another woman for bride,
That his kinsmen in council assembled spake unto him of the fame
Of a certain proud queen widowed, that Kriemhild had to name.