Then drew them apart the Princes, and spake together the three,
Even Gunther the King and Gernot and Dietrich secretly:
“O Knight of Bern most noble and valiant, tell us now—
Of the inmost mind of Kriemhild the Queen what knowest thou?”
And the Prince of Bern made answer: “What other can be my tale
Save this, that morning by morning I hear her weep and wail—
This Etzel’s wife, Queen Kriemhild—with bitter and passionate breath
Appealing to God in Heaven to avenge strong Siegfried’s death?”
“O’erlate is it now for repenting as touching this thou hast told,”
Spake Volker the viol-minstrel, the warrior ever bold.