Whom the watchers should see returning to Bechlaren never more.
Yet rode that company blithely down to the river-strand,
And far through the Danube-valley away to the Hunfolk’s land.
Then to the thanes Burgundian the princely Margrave cried,
Even Rüdiger the noble: “We may now no longer hide
From the lords of the realm the tidings that to Hunland we draw near.
Sooth, never hath King Etzel heard aught to his heart so dear.”
Then rode swift heralds many to the land of the Easterling,
And so full soon did the tidings through all the country ring
That from Worms-over-Rhine the heroes were coming thitherward.