Thronged and pressed to behold them the people of the land.
To right and to left on the hill-sides men and women wept;
But, how sorrowed the people soever, for joy their own hearts leapt.
Forth also with these went riding Niblung men of war,
A thousand heroes in hauberks: in the Niblung homes afar
Fair women they left full many whom they saw not from that day.
—Rankled the wounds of Siegfried in the heart of Kriemhild aye!
(C) Albeit the faith of Christians was weak in those far-off days,
Yet journeyed with these a chaplain for chanting of prayer and praise;
And, though out of desperate peril, alive this man came home;