And, if any in insolent fashion us stranger guests shall greet,
With deadly wounds requite it. Lo, Hagen’s rede is this;
And thereby shall ye prove by trial that so for your honour it is.”
Those comrades, Volker and Hagen, planted them side by side
In front of the wide-walled minster: there fixed did they abide;
For they did it of this set purpose, that the Queen might enter not
Unjostled by their shoulders—unto such stern mood were they wrought.
Then came the Lord of the Hunland, and beside him his fair Queen paced.
With royal-rich apparel was Kriemhild’s beauty graced.
And valiant warriors many in the train of these drew nigh.