In the path, and frighteth Hagen from journeying thitherward!”
Spake Hagen of Troneg: “Never fear stirreth nor stayeth me!
Lo, ye have determined it, heroes: your hands to the work set ye.
Doubt not, I will ride with you blithely into King Etzel’s realm.”
—Soon hewn by him asunder was many a shield and helm.
To bear them over the Rhine-flood ready the galleys lay;
So the warriors set a-shipboard their goodly vesture-array:
With lading and unlading till eventide busy they were.
—O forth from their homes full blithely on the journey did they fare.
The warriors pitched in the meadow for themselves pavilion and tent