How Kriemhild mourned for Siegfried, and How he was Buried
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There till the night they tarried and o'er the Rhine they went.
By knights in chase might never more evil day be spent;
For the game that there they hunted wept many a noble maid.
In sooth by many a valiant warrior must it since be paid.
Of humor fierce and wanton list now and ye shall hear,
And eke of direst vengeance. Hagen bade to bear
Siegfried thus lifeless, of the Nibelung country,
Unto a castle dwelling where Lady Kriemhild found might be.
He bade in secret manner to lay him there before
Where she should surely find him when she from out the door
Should pass to matins early, ere that had come the day.
In sooth did Lady Kriemhild full seldom fail the hour to pray.
When, as was wont, in minster the bell
