We must needs all set on the hazard life and limb this day!”
So when from Blödel the warrior the Queen had wrung consent
To make beginning of conflict, to the feast-hall thence she went
Beside the great King Etzel, and their knights behind them pressed.
A terrible doom for the strangers she purposed within her breast.
(C) In what order they passed to the banquet unto you shall the song declare:
Men saw great kings and mighty the crown before her bear;
Yea, high-born princes many and thanes of high degree
Before the Queen did service in great humility.
(C) The King to his guests appointed their seats through the feast-hall wide,