The Nibelungenlied
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“Whom art thou calling ‘Wanton’?”

in answer cried the queen.

“That call I thee,” quoth Kriemhild’;

“thy body fair hath been

Woo’d first, not by thy husband,

but by my lord, Siegfried:

I trow ’twas not my brother

who won thy maidenhead!