How the Queen bade set fire to the Hall
"Now lay ye off the helmets," the words from Hagen fell:
"I with a boon companion will be your sentinel.
And seek the men of Etzel to work us further harm,
For my royal masters full quickly will I cry alarm."
Then freed his head of armor many a warrior good.
They sate them on the corses, that round them in the blood
Of wounds themselves had dealt them, prostrate weltering lay.
Now to his guests so lofty scant courtesy did Etzel pay.
Ere yet was come the even, King Etzel did persuade,
And eke the Lady Kriemhild, that once more essayed
The Hunnish knights to storm them. Before them might ye see
Good twenty thousand warriors, who soon for fight must ready be.
Then with a furious onset the strangers they attacked.
Dankwart, Hagen's brother,
