Yet, had not the Christian warriors at the last against them fought,
Deliverance from the heathen their prowess, I trow, had wrought.
Wolfhart the while went cleaving a blood-path to and fro;
He lashed at the liegemen of Gunther, he laid their bravest low:
For the third time now was he hewing a death-way round the hall;
Before his mighty hand-strokes did many a good knight fall.
Then cried aloud unto Wolfhart the stalwart Giselher:
“Alas for me, who have gotten so grim a foeman there!
O valiant knight and noble, hither to meward turn!
I will end it—no more the destroying flame of thy wrath shall burn.”