In council with friends and kinsmen. Depart ye; tarry the while
In the halls wherein we have lodged you, and find there rest from your toil!”
But spake the minstrel Werbel: “May this not also be,
That we come before Queen Uta, and the face of our Lady see
Or ever we pass from the presence royal unto our rest?”
And Giselher the courteous made answer to his request:
“That boon shall no man deny you: if ye to her presence would go,
After the will of my mother and her heart’s desire were it so.
For my sister’s sake your faces right gladly will she see.
For the sake of the Lady Kriemhild welcome to her shall ye be.”