The envoys of Kriemhilda
were sore discomfited,
For they of both their rulers
the wrath began to dread;
And leave they daily sought for,
that they might thence begone.
But Hagen would not grant it:
through cunning that was done.
The envoys of Kriemhilda
were sore discomfited,
For they of both their rulers
the wrath began to dread;
And leave they daily sought for,
that they might thence begone.
But Hagen would not grant it:
through cunning that was done.