If one would give to me towers with the ruddy gold heaped high,
Against yon viol-minstrel in battle I would not stand.
I have marked his eagle-glances, and I fear the might of his hand.
Yea, and I knew yon Hagen in his youth long years ago.
It needs not that any should tell me of the prowess that I know:
In battles two-and-twenty have I seen him play his part.
Unto many a wife made widow hath he given sorrow of heart.
Yea, he and Walter the Spaniard upon many a foray fared;
And here under Etzel’s banner full many a deed they dared
For the King’s renown: they have proved them so oft in foughten field,