Then gripped that haughty boatman himself the oar in hand.
Now this same ferry-boatman was a churlish wight and dour,
Yet greedy of gain; and ofttimes is greed destruction’s lure.
He weened he should earn full lightly Hagen’s gold for reward—
Ha, but he earned from the hero grim death by the edge of the sword!
With mighty strokes that boatman from bank to bank rowed o’er;
But him who was named he found not abiding him on the shore.
Then brake he forth into fury when Hagen alone he espied:
In the fierceness of his anger unto the hero he cried:
“Haply the name that thou bearest Amelrich may be;