How Siegmund fared Home Again
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Then went royal Siegmund where he Kriemhild found.
Unto the queen spake he: "Home must we now be bound.
We ween that guests unwelcome here are we by the Rhine.
Kriemhild, belovéd lady, come now to country that is mine.
"Though from us hath been taken by foul traitor's hand
Thy good spouse and noble here in stranger land,
Thine be it not to suffer: good friend thou hast in me
For sake of son belovéd: thereof shalt thou undoubting be.
"Eke shalt thou have, good lady, all the power to hold,
The which erstwhile hath shown thee Siegfried the thane full bold.
The land and the crown likewise, be they thine own to call,
And gladly eke shall serve thee Siegfried's doughty warriors all."
Then did they tell the servants that they thence would ride,
