And so knights noble and gentle full many to us shall come.”
He answered: “If this thou askest, thereto hast thou my consent.
Thyself in the sight of thy kinsmen shall be never so well content
As I, in beholding the faces of noble Uta’s sons.
I grieve that these have been strangers so long from the land of the Huns.
My wife, my well-belovèd, if this be thy pleasure,” he said,
“As messengers unto thy kinsmen straightway of me shall be sped
Unto Burgundy-land our minstrels, the lords of the viol-string.”
Into his presence the minstrels he bade them straightway bring.
Then came the King’s two servants to the presence of their lord