Ye be all too few to grapple with Hagen in battle-strain.
How valiant and mighty soever the Hero of Troneg be,
The man that sitteth beside him is mightier far than he,
Volker the viol-minstrel: a very fiend he is.
Ye may nowise meet yon heroes with so scanty a band as this.”
So when they had heard that warning, four hundred warriors more
Clad them in battle-harness. With longing exceeding sore
Was the heart of the Queen a-hungered for vengeance for her wrong.
Therefrom were the valiant champions into grim straits brought ere long.
And so soon as armed for the onset she saw her vassal-train,