The stream was overflowing,
no skiff was there to see,
The Nibelungs misdoubted,
in great anxiety,
How they should e’er get over;
the flood was all too wide.
The gallant knights dismounted
hard by the river-side.
The stream was overflowing,
no skiff was there to see,
The Nibelungs misdoubted,
in great anxiety,
How they should e’er get over;
the flood was all too wide.
The gallant knights dismounted
hard by the river-side.