Never did Volker and Hagen leave one another’s side,
Save only in one grim conflict, until on their death they came,
Which was cause of sorrow and weeping unto many a noble dame.
On passed to the hall of the presence with the Princes a gallant train,
A thousand of their vassals, each man a valiant thane.
There were threescore knights moreover of that royal company,
Warriors whom Hagen the dauntless had brought from his seignory.
Hawart and Iring, chieftains of Etzel’s own war-band,
Went with Burgundia’s Princes to the palace hand in hand.
Dankwart withal, and Wolfhart, an earl of high degree,