How Bloedel was Slain
The knights by Bloedel summoned soon armed and ready were,
A thousand wearing hauberks straightway did repair
Where Dankwart sat at table with many a goodly squire.
Soon knight on knight was seeking in fiercest way to vent his ire.
When there Sir Bloedel strode unto the board,
Dankwart the marshal thus spoke courteous word:
"Unto this hall right welcome good Sir Bloedel be.
What business hast thou hither is cause of wonder yet to me."
"No greeting here befits thee," spake Bloedel presently,
"For that this my coming now thy end must be,
Through Hagen's fault, thy brother, who Siegfried erstwhile slew
To the Huns thou mak'st atonement, and many another warrior too."
"But nay, but nay, Sir Bloedel," Dankwart spake thereto,
"For so should we have reason our
