When faced by friend that standeth at friend’s side loyal and fast!
Ay, intermeddlers in quarrels, if wisdom they have to refrain
And to take heed unto their goings, may deliver themselves from bane.
Then spake the dreadless Volker: “Now for ourselves have we found
The truth whereof we had warning, that here foes swarm all round.
Let us pass on then to the Princes, where in the palace they are,
That none may beset our masters unawares with array of war.”
“Good; lead thou on, I follow,” did Hagen answering say.
And thence went those two comrades; and there in the hall saw they
Those knights, and the Hunfolk greeting thronged them all about.