At this guest-greeting! Ready am I and exceeding fain.
(C) O yea, I will so devise it, that on this festal day
My vengeance shall stand triumphant, betide thereof what may,
Over his hateful body who bereaved me utterly
Of love, of the joy of living—but the hour of requital is nigh!”
XXVIII.
How the Burgundians came to Etzel’s strong City
Now when the Burgundian Heroes came to the Hunfolk’s land,
Told was the thing to the warrior of Bern, old Hildebrand,
And he unto Dietrich told it; and his lord with grief and dismay
Heard; yet he bade him welcome that valiant knightly array.