Now unto the Lady Kriemhild were the welcome tidings come
That her brethren had consented to fare to her Hunland home.
Then was she glad: of her bounty did the messengers receive
Rich gifts, such as are for the honour of so great a queen to give.
She said: “Now give ye answer, Werbel and Schwemmel, to me:
Who of my kinsmen be minded at my festal tide to be
Of their noblest whom we have bidden to ride to the land of the Hun?
When Hagen heard the tidings, what said that mighty one?”
They answered and said: “To their council he came with earliest day;
But little good of the high-tide would he be moved to say.