So himself became their escort. Led were the horses thence
To the stalls, for squires there waited, and henchmen not a few,
With swift obedience ready to render them service due.
So back to the hall of the palace his guests did the host-king lead:
He suffered in his presence no wrathful word or deed.
They set the tables in order, the water the pages bare:
—Yet many a most stern foeman had the Rhineland warriors there.
(C) Albeit it irked King Etzel, a great throng into the hall
Followed the lords Burgundian, and weapons had they all.
On the guests they scowled their hatred, as they passed to the feastful board;