Of the journey to Etzel’s kingdom then first the truth they told.
For now the second mermaid, whose name was Sieglind, spake:
“Aldrian’s son, thou Hagen, from me this warning take:—
False is the thing my cousin but to win her raiment saith.
If thou to the Hunfolk goest, betrayed art thou to thy death.
While yet there is time, turn backward; wisely so should ye do,
Forasmuch as ye valiant heroes are but bidden thereto
To the end that ye all may perish in the Hunfolk’s land.
Yea, whoso rideth thither, Death rideth at his right hand.”
Answered and spake to her Hagen: “This your deceit is vain.