But nothing thou hast of the favour of him I had looked to see.
My brother was he: one father begat us, one mother bare.
Since thou by a lie hast lured me across, e’en bide thou there!”
“Nay, in God’s name I charge thee!” Hagen answering cried.
“A knight am I, and a stranger, and to other thanes am I guide.
Take thou the gold that I proffer unto thee for thine hire as a friend,
And ferry us over the river: no hurt unto thee I intend.”
Swiftly the ferryman answered: “Never shall this be done!
My well-belovèd masters have enemies many an one;
Therefore I bear no strangers from this to the farther shore.