That indeed I have high-born kinsmen; but sorely it troubleth me
That, since I wedded thee, never their faces have I seen.
In sooth, of all thy people am I known for ‘the Kinless Queen’!”
Made answer and spake King Etzel: “O wife, heart’s dearest mine,
If not too great be the journey, I will bid them over Rhine
Hither to this my kingdom, the friends thou art fain to see.”
Then for the word that spake him her ally glad was she.
“If thou, my lord,” she made answer, “thy kindness to me wilt show,
Unto Worms, to the city of Rhineland, forth let thy messengers go;
So will I send mine heart’s wish to the friends in the far-away home;