With couches exceeding splendid: long and broad they were.
—There trusted Kriemhild to tangle their feet in murder’s snare.
With tapestries of Arras were the couches overspread.
Wrought all of radiant loomwork, and strown was every bed
With glistering silks Arabian, the richest that eye hath seen,
And coverlets lay thereover that gleamed with lordly sheen.
And rich rugs, some of ermine fashioned, lay in sight,
And some of the dusky sable, whereunder through the night
They should rest them lying softly till shone the light of day.
Sooth, never a king with his vassals in state more lordly lay.