And scornfully Giselher answered the baron and bitterly:
“If conscience, O friend Hagen, maketh a coward of thee,
Here in the land abide thou, and guard thine health with care,
And let such as fear no dangers with us to my sister fare.”
At his scoffing the hero of Troneg brake into fierceness of wrath—
“I tell thee, that no man fareth with thee on the Hunward path
Who feareth so little as Hagen to Etzel’s palace to ride!
Ay, and by deeds will I prove it, since ye will not be turned aside.”
Then spake the feast-arrayer, Rumold the noble thane:
“The home-friend and the stranger at home can ye entertain