Earnestly she gainsaid it. Then came in twain unto her,
Gernot the knight her brother, and the young prince Giselher;
And lovingly did they pray her to be comforted from her woe,
And to take the King to her husband, for that this to her profit should grow.
Yet howsoever they pleaded, was none could turn aside
The heart of that Queen of Sorrow to be another’s bride.
So they ceased, but they prayed her, “Suffer in any wise this thing,
An thou wilt nought else, to look on the herald of Etzel the King.”
“Yea,” answered the noble Lady, “this thing will I not deny.
Upon Rüdiger the knightly, the flower of chivalry,