Small rest that day had the valiant Lord of Troneg’s hand!
(C) Now the barge was stoutly builded, wide and exceeding great;
Five hundred or more uncumbered it bare at a single freight
Over the waters, heroes with their victual and war-array.
Full many a stalwart warrior must strain at the oar that day.
When all these over the river Hagen had safely brought,
Thereafter the fierce-heart hero on that weird prophecy thought,
The boding the wild mermaiden so lately spake unto him.
And for this King Gunther’s chaplain well-nigh lost life and limb.
In the boat stood the priest with his vessels of holy sacrament;