She answered, “To him be welcome who joyeth to see thy face!
For thy friendship’s sake is accorded here no greeting’s grace.
This tell to me, what dost thou bring me from Worms beyond the Rhine,
That unto me so welcome should be this presence of thine?”
“What new thing shall this be, quotha!” spake Hagen scornfully,
“That these good knights Burgundian should be bringers of gifts unto thee?
Had I known that thou wert so grasping—I am rich enow, I wot,—
A gift unto thee of my bounty to the Hunland had I brought.”
“Thy gifts!—thou answer the question I ask of thee this day:
The Hoard, the Niblung Treasure—where have ye thrust it away?