For the loved and long expected who were drawing near at last.

—Yet out of the life of Etzel by these all gladness was cast!

XXV.
How the Princes rode to the Land of the Huns

So then of their doings in Hunland needeth no more to say:

But for them of Burgundia—never such high-souled heroes as they

Rode in such lordly fashion in the land of any king.

All had they, weapons and raiment, that they would for their wayfaring.

The Lord of the Rhine in vesture arrayed his warrior-throng,

Knights fourscore and a thousand, as sayeth the olden song;

Yea also, and squires nine thousand to that great feast-tide rode.