“We will not be turned from our purpose,” he said; “we will forth on the way.
Whoso is prudent of spirit can ward him in peril aye.”
Answered and spake to him Hagen: “Now in ill part take not ye
This last word of my counsel, whatsoever your fate may be,—
For in all true faith I give it:—if aught for your lives ye care,
Arrayed in harness of battle to the Hunland do ye fare.
Since ye will not be swayed from your purpose, summon your men of war,
The best ye may find in your war-band, or hear of near or far;
And out of them all will I choose us a thousand chiefest of might:
So shall ye not be defenceless against this Kriemhild’s spite.”