For in all the wide world never on him did such blow fall.
He cried: “What, all my liegemen?—and have they perished all?
So then—oh hapless Dietrich!—my God hath forgotten me!
And erewhile a king most mighty I reigned in majesty!”
But again in amaze spake Dietrich: “How could it so betide
That they, those goodly heroes, should one and all have died
Slain by men battle-weary and in sore extremity?
Mine evil star hath done it, else death must have passed them by!
Since then mine evil fortune hath spared me not this stroke,
Answer me—live yet any of those Burgundian folk?”