By her gifts unto many which never had seen her she made her known,
For which cause spake in his wonder to the guests full many an one:
“We weened that of all wealth Kriemhild was stripped bare—so had we heard:
And behold, she doth with her bounty marvels great beyond word!”
Seven days and ten it lasted, that marriage festival-tide.
Ne’er was it told to the minstrel that any king beside
A marriage-feast so glorious hath held—we have heard not his name.
In new bright raiment vestured were all to the feast that came.
Ne’er had she sat in the Low Land in the days of long ago
In the presence of knights so many: yea, this of a truth do I know.