How Gunther bade Siegfried to the Feast
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Now all time bethought her royal Gunther's wife:
"How now doth Lady Kriemhild lead so haughty life?
In sooth her husband Siegfried doth homage to us owe,
But now full long unto us little service he doth show."
That in her heart in secret eke she pondered o'er.
That they were strangers to her did grieve her heart full sore,
And so seldom sign of service came from Siegfried's land.
How it thus was fallen, that she fain would understand.
She probed then the monarch, if the thing might be,
That she the Lady Kriemhild once again might see.
She spake it all in secret whereon her heart did dwell;
The thing she then did speak of pleased the monarch passing well.
"How might we bring them hither"—spake the mighty king—
"Unto this my cou
