This is mine heart’s petition, for my life well-nigh hast thou ta’en.”
(C) Then cried aloud King Gunther to the priest there standing lone:
“Lo, I will fully requite thee for all that Hagen hath done
Unto thee in his evil anger, whensoever back to the Rhine
Alive thou shalt see me returning: no fear thereof be thine.
(C) Fare homeward unto thy country, for so it must needs be now,
And unto my wife, my belovèd, take my greetings thou.
And by thee do I greet my kinsfolk, as is meet and right for a king.
Bear thou unto them glad tidings of our prosperous wayfaring.”
Now harnessed the horses waited, and the sumpters each with its load