And to you will I aye be beholden, even as is meet and right,
And the insolent outrage of Hagen will I to the full requite.
Let none of all their warriors tarry without the door;
And I will cause yon feast-hall to be fired at its corners four:
So shall I have meet vengeance for all mine anguish of heart!”
Swiftly the warriors of Etzel set them to play their part.
Them that without were standing they drave back through the door
With swords and with hail of javelins: loud rang the battle-roar.
Yet in all that stress the princes and liegemen were sundered not:
From loyal faith to each other never they swerved one jot.