Never in all my life-days guests have I known so dear.
And if these peradventure be minded to grant the thing that I pray,
Even the kinsmen of Kriemhild, I beseech them not to delay,
But to come in the summer season of this year unto my feast:
So by these my marriage-kinsmen shall the joy of my life be increased.”
Made answer the viol-minstrel, and Schwemmel the knightly replied:
“When, O my Lord, in the Hunland shall fall thy festal tide,
To the end that unto thy kinsmen by Rhine we may certainly say?”
Made answer and spake King Etzel, “On next Midsummer Day.”
“We will do after thy commandment,” straight Werbel made reply.