Of the Princes Three, my masters, it is rendered up unto none.”
“Of the oath will I make swift ending!” that high-born woman said.
To her brother she sent her servants, and she bade them smite him dead.
And they hewed his head from his body: she held it on high by the hair
In sight of the Hero of Troneg. With grief beyond compare
And with indignation of spirit he saw the head of his lord.
Grimly he turned on Kriemhild, and spake his latest word:
“Thou hast indeed made ending according to thy will.
Even as I had foreseen it, so now doth fate fulfil.
Dead now is the noble Gunther, the King of Burgundy,