Then the squires5 were told that they must ride away. A mickle hurrying for steeds was seen, for they were loth to stay with their deadly foes6. Men bade dames8 and maidens9 seek their robes. When that King Siegmund would fain have ridden forth11, Kriemhild’s mother gan beg her that she stay there with her kindred.
The royal lady answered: “That might hardly hap12. How could I bear the sight of him from whom such great wrong hath happed13 to me, poor wife?”
Then spake young Giselher: “Dear sister mine, by thy troth thou shouldst stay here with thy mother. Thou dost need no service of them that have grieved thee and saddened thy mood. Live from my goods alone.”
To the warrior14 she spake: “Certes, it may not hap, for I should die of dole15 whenever I should gaze on Hagen.”
“I’ll give thee rede for that, dear sister mine. Thou shalt live with thy brother Giselher, and of a truth I’ll comfort thee of thy husband’s death.”
Then answered the hapless wife: “Of that hath Kriemhild need.”
When the youth had made her such kindly16 offer, then gan Uta and Gernot and her faithful kin10 entreat17. They begged her to tarry there, for but little kith she had among Siegfried’s men.
“They be all strangers to you,” spake Gernot; “none that liveth is so strong but that he must come to die. Consider that, dear sister, and console your mind. Stay with your kinsfolk; ye shall fare well in truth.”
Then she made vow18 to Giselher that she would stay. The steeds were brought for Siegfried’s men, sith they would ride to the Nibelung land. Also all the trappings of the knights19 were packed upon the sumpters. Then the Lord Siegmund hied him to Kriemhild’s side. To the lady he spake: “Siegfried’s men are waiting by the steeds. Now must we ride away, for I be ill content in Burgundy.”
The Lady Kriemhild then replied: “All that I have of faithful kin advise me that I stay here with them; I have no kith in the Nibelung land.”
Loth it was to Siegmund, when that he found Kriemhild of this mind. He spake: “Let no one tell you that. Before all my kinsmen20 ye shall wear the crown with such sovran power as ye did aforetime. Ye shall not suffer, because we have lost the knight. Ride also with us home again, for the sake of your little child. Lady, ye should not leave him orphaned21. When your son groweth up, he will comfort your heart. Meanwhile many bold heroes and good shall serve you.”
“Sir Siegmund,” quoth she, “forsooth I like not for to ride. Whatever fortune, here must I tarry with my kindred, who help me mourn.”
These tales gan now displease22 the doughty23 warriors24. All spake alike: “We might well aver25 that now first hath ill befallen us. If ye would stay here with our foes, then have heroes never ridden to court more sorrowfully.”
“Ye shall journey free of care, commended unto God; ye shall be given safe-conduct to Siegmund’s land, I’ll bid them guard you well. To the care of you knights shall my dear child be given.”
When they marked that she would not go hence, then wept all of Siegmund’s men alike. How right sorrowfully Siegmund parted then from Lady Kriemhild! He became acquaint with grief. “Woe26 worth this courtly feasting,” spake the noble king. “Through pastime will nevermore hap to king or to his kinsmen, what here hath happed to us. Men shall see us nevermore in Burgundy.”
Then Siegfried’s men spake openly: “A journey to this land might still take place, if we discovered aright him who slew27 our lord. Enow of his kinsmen be their deadly foes.”
He kissed Kriemhild; how sorrowfully he spake, when he perceived aright that she would stay: “Now let us ride joyless home unto our land, now first do I feel all my sorrow.”
Down to the Rhine from Worms they rode without an escort. They were surely of the mind that they, the bold Nibelungs, could well defend them, should they be encountered in hostile wise. Leave they asked of none, but Gernot and Giselher were seen to go to Siegmund in loving wise. These brave and lusty knights convinced him that they mourned his loss. Courteously28 Prince Gernot spake: “God in heaven knoweth well that I be not to blame for Siegfried’s death, nor heard I ever that any was his foe7. I mourn him justly.”
Giselher, the youth, gave them then safe-conduct. Sorrowly he led them from the land home to Netherland. How few kinsman29 were found joyous30 then!
How they now fared at Worms I cannot tell. All time men heard Kriemhild mourn, so that none might comfort her heart nor mind, save Giselher alone; loyal he was and good. Brunhild, the fair, sate31 in overweening pride. How Kriemhild wept, she recked not, nor did she ever show her love or troth. Lady Kriemhild wrought32 her in after days the bitterest woe of heart.
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knight
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