Then Dietrich flamed into anger, and swiftly answered he:
“Lo, I am he that hath warned them, these Princes of Burgundy,
And the King of the Rhineland’s liegemen, and Hagen the unafraid!
Make trial, thou child of the Devil, if the debt shall by me be paid!”
Then quailed before him Kriemhild, and darkly she flushed with shame:
For before the mighty Dietrich great fear on her spirit came.
Straightway she went from their presence: no word to her lips arose,
But one swift glance of hatred she flashed upon her foes.
Stood face to face these heroes with hand in right hand clasped:
Dietrich of Bern in friendship the hand of Hagen grasped.