How they cast out the Dead
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From toil of battle weary rested the warriors all.
Volker and Hagen passed out before the hall,
And on their shields did lean them, those knights whom naught could daunt.
Then with full merry converse gan the twain their foes to taunt.
Spake meanwhile of Burgundy Giselher the thane:
"Not yet, good friends, may ye think to rest again.
Forth from the hall the corses shall ye rather bear.
Again we'll be assailéd, that would I now in sooth declare.
"Beneath our feet no longer here the dead must lie.
But ere in storm of battle at hand of Huns to die,
We'll deal such wounds around us as 'tis my joy to see.
Thereon," spake Giselher, "my heart is fixed right steadfastly."
"I joy in such a master," Hagen spake again:
"Such counsel well befitteth al
