Drew a viol-bow strange-fashioned, a mighty and long steel blade:
Yea, as a sword was it shapen, and keen it was and broad.
Thus sat these knights in the presence of a throng of their foes unawed.
Of such high worth they accounted themselves, that fearless twain,
For dread of any foeman never a whit would they deign
To rise from the place of their session. Now stood before them there
That high-born Daughter of Princes, and a bitter greeting she bare;
For she spake: “Now say, Lord Hagen, who sent a bidding to thee
That thou darest hither to journey to my land thus hardily,
Albeit full well thou knewest what deeds unto me thou hast done?