That hither we fare to your kingdom, and commend their service to you.
Unto you, O knights, have they sent us in kindness loving and true.”
And the mighty King made answer: “Of thy tidings am I fain.
How fareth it now with Etzel?”—spake on that royal thane—
“And how with Kriemhild my sister in the Hunland hath it sped?”
“I will tell thee all their story,” the viol-harper said.
“Better in any kingdom never its lords have been,
Nor blither, know of a surety, than Hunland’s King and Queen,
And all their kinsmen and liegemen, and all their knightly train.
Right glad were they of our journey, when hither we fared, we twain.”