Unto his warrior-comrade spake Volker the dreadless knight:
“Behold now, O friend Hagen, and mark as she draweth nigh
Who as guests hath bidden us hither with purpose of treachery.
Never so many warriors saw I follow a queen
With sword in hand drawing nigh me, and with faces battle-keen.
Of this art thou ware, friend Hagen, that to thee are they foemen fell:
Wherefore I give thee counsel, take heed that thou guard well
Thy life and thy knightly honour. I trow such rede is good;
For in very deed meseemeth they come in angry mood.
There is many a man amongst them broad-chested and stalwart of frame.