In any wise might one seek her to be thy noble queen.
She is worthy, O King, thy wooing; never lovelier woman was seen.”
And the noble King made answer: “Unto whom of you all be known
The people that dwell in Rhineland, and the realm their princes own?”
Answered the Lord of Bechlaren, the knightly Rüdiger:
“Known be its princely rulers unto me from my birth-tide year.
Lo, these be Gunther and Gernot, valiant knights and true,
And of these is Giselher youngest, and ever the Princes do
What sorteth wholly with honour and chivalry high-souled:
Yea, they walk in the steps of their fathers, the stainless heroes of old.”