Let us leave them riding in panic, while fast their gashes bleed.
Back to our friends let us hasten: of a truth ’tis the better rede.”
When back to the place of their conflict they came, where many had died,
Spake Hagen of Troneg: “Heroes, now let us be certified
Who from our ranks be missing, whom of our friends we have lost
Here, where the wrath of Gelfrat so many lives hath cost.”
So they numbered, and four were lacking; but for these they made short moan.
Well were they avenged of a surety! For the deaths of these to atone
There lay of Bavaria’s champions more than a hundred dead.
The shields of the men of Troneg with blood were bedimmed and red.