The Nibelungenlied
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Chapter_1272

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Within her heart she ponder’d:

“Shall I my body give⁠—

Who am a Christian woman⁠—

and with a heathen wive?

Fore all the world and ever

disgrace on me ’twould bring⁠—

Though all his wealth he gave me,

I would not do this thing!”