Yea, unto death was stricken Dietrich’s vassal-knight:—

None save a battle-champion had wrought such a deed of might!

Wolfhart knew it his death-wound, but the hero undismayed

Cast from his arm his buckler; his adamant-tempered blade,

His sword of the edge all-cleaving, in both hands high did he swing,

And he smote the son of Uta through helm and through hauberk-ring.

Death-stricken each by other down fell they side by side;

By one grim doom that liegeman of Dietrich and Giselher died.

Hildebrand, that grey warrior, saw Wolfhart overthrown:

Of a truth, through all his life-days such pain had he never known.