How rich were the alien heroes might all discern thereby:
Then all through the wide-wayed city they lodged them royally.
So soon as men saw these strangers through the streets of the city ride,
They gazed on the long procession with wonder eager-eyed,
Sore marvelling whence these barons to the land of the Rhine had come.
“Know’st thou,” the King asked Hagen, “who these shall be, and wherefrom?”
Answered the Lord of Troneg: “Not yet have I looked on them well.
So soon as mine eyes have marked them, doubt not but I shall tell
From what far country hither hath ridden their knightly array.
They must needs be far-off dwellers if I know them not straightway.”