That so evilly Hagen had spoken of the child of the lord of the land.
To sit and endure such insult as gall to their spirit seemed;
But of that which ere long by the warrior should be done, ah, little they dreamed!
(C) Full many that heard it, whose hatred of him already was hot,
Would fain have fallen upon him—yea, that would the King, I wot,
Had his honour permitted; the hero had then been in evil plight.
More cruelly soon did he wrong him, that he slew his child in his sight.
XXXII.
Of the Slaughter of the Squires and the Slaying of the Slayer
Now the knights that Blödel gathered arrayed themselves forthright.
To the feast-hall they hied them, a thousand in hauberks harnessed for fight,