How the Nibelungen Hoard was Brought to Worms
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When that the noble Kriemhild thus did widowed stand,
Remained there with his warriors by her in that land
Eckewart the margrave, and served her ever true.
And he did help his mistress oft to mourn his master too.
At Worms a house they built her the minster high beside,
That was both rich and spacious, full long and eke full wide,
Wherein with her attendants joyless did she dwell.
She sought the minster gladly, —that to do she loved full well.
Seldom undone she left it, but thither went alway
In sorry mood where buried her loved husband lay.
God begged she in his mercy his soul in charge to keep,
And, to the thane right faithful, for him full often did she weep.
Ute and her attendants all times a comfort bore,
But yet he
