Then thought the Faithful-hearted: “Since I thus lightly have won
Friends so many and steadfast, I will e’en let folk say on
What things they list of ‘the Heathen’! O sorrow-laden wife!—
What and if I at last win vengeance for my lost belovèd’s life?”
She thought: “Since this King Etzel is served of many a knight
Over whom shall I be mistress, I may do as seemeth me right.
He hath such stintless treasures, I may yet give bounteously:—
All that was mine hath Hagen the ruthless torn from me!”
Again unto Rüdiger spake she: “Except I had heard folk say
That the King is a heathen, gladly my feet should tread the way