The Nibelungenlied
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Fast flew the shield-clasps, severed

by mighty Siegfried’s hand.

He thought himself the victor,

this prince of Netherland,

Over the dauntless Saxons;⁠—

so many wounded lay.

Ha, how the bright mail-armour

at Dankwart’s strokes did fray!