The Nibelungenlied
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Chapter_865

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Thereto said dame Kriemhilda:

“ ’Twere best to let me fare!

By this gold ring I’ll prove it,

which on my hand I wear;

’Twas brought to me by Siegfried

when by your side he lay.”

Ne’er yet had Queen Brunhilda

outlived a sadder day.