Without the walls find lodging in hamlet and homestead around.”
Well wot I that daily and hourly waiting on Kriemhild were found
The noble baron Dietrich and many a knight of his host;
In labour of love aye toiling they wrought to the uttermost
That the hearts of their guests should be gladdened in stintless plenty and peace,
So that Rüdiger and his kinsmen took now their disport and their ease.
Then came that royal bridal on the Feast of Whitsuntide,
Whereon the Hun-king Etzel won Kriemhild to be his bride
In Vienna the royal city: such hosts of men, I wot,
In the days of her first lord Siegfried on her pleasure had waited not.