There was the great Queen Uta, with many a comely maid;
And they showed what burden of sorrow upon their hearts was laid.
With a hundred high-born maidens she rode from the land away,
All as beseemed their station attired in costly array.
Ah then with tears upwelling were many bright eyes drowned:
Yet many a day of joyance in Etzel’s land they found.
Lord Giselher, and Gernot, with their vassal-company,
Came on that parting-morning, as bidden of courtesy,
To escort their belovèd sister to the uttermost part of the land,
And they led a thousand warriors in that their gallant band.