When he had reached his castle, and sat with the queen alone

When he had reached his castle, and sat with the queen alone, The mother of fair Hilda, Hagen was free to own That none to win his daughter more fitly could have pleaded; And if he had yet others, he fain to the Hegeling land would send them to be wedded.

Hilda for this gave praises to her master, Christ the Lord: “That I of my dear daughter such happy news have heard Fills my heart with gladness, and with bliss o’erflowing. How fares it with her followers, and Hildeburg, who long her love was showing?”

Then spake the kingly Hagen: “Now in their land and home All of them are happy; great hath our child become; Ne’er, with us, were her maidens clothed in such fine dresses. There we now must leave them: for her were many breastplates hacked to pieces.”