With Gere and Ortwein, the Princes Gernot and Giselher
Showed unto all beholders how open of hand they were;
For unto the herald-minstrels such rich gifts offered they
That for dread of their King they dared not but say the givers nay.
For the messenger-minstrel Werber unto Gunther the King replied:
“Lord King, e’en suffer thy presents here in thy land to abide.
We may not carry them with us, for my Lord hath forbidden us this,
Even accepting of presents—and little we need them, I wis.”
Then the Lord of the Rhine was angered, for he held it discourtesy
That these should reject the bounty of so great a King as he,