When the messengers stood before him, Lord Gernot spake to them thus:
“The King unto that consenteth which Etzel asketh of us.
We will come, and that right gladly, unto his festal tide,
And to see the face of our sister: thereof be ye certified.”
Then spake unto them King Gunther: “This know ye so as to say,
When beginneth the high-tide, or to tell us on what day
The King will look for our coming?” Schwemmel made answer again:
“At the next Mid-summer season; without fail shall it be then.”
Then the King to the envoys granted what had not aforetime been,
That, if they would fain have audience of the Lady Brunhild the Queen,