“Now thank we him for the message that he sendeth by your voice.
Thanks unto him and my sister: herein do I greatly rejoice
That your King and all his people in peace and in bliss abide;—
For indeed I feared in mine asking lest haply worse might betide.”
Now came the two young princes into the hall, and heard;
For touching those glad tidings had come to them yet no word.
Bright at beholding the envoys shone young Giselher’s eyes
For the love that he bare to his sister: and he spake in friendliest wise:
“Heralds twain, ye be welcome, right welcome to us this day!
An ye came but oftener riding upon the Rhineward way,