(C) Much it advantaged the heroes that the hall was vaulted o’er:

By reason thereof, in the morning there lived so many the more.

Albeit on them at the windows more hotly the flame-tongues played,

Unflinching did they withstand them as valour and honour bade.

Then spake the viol-minstrel: “Now go we into the hall.

These Huns shall deem peradventure that their enemies one and all

Be dead through the fiery torment wherewith we have been beset;

But I ween there be some that in grapple of fight shall close with them yet.”

Then of the Princes Burgundian the youngest, Giselher, spake:

“Lo now, a cold wind riseth: the day shall, I trow, soon break.