When all knew, of a surety,
that Rüdeger was dead,
The warriors bewail’d him,
as love and fealty bade.
From each of Dietrich’s liegemen
one saw the tears-drops fall
O’er chin and beard descending:
sore was the grief of all.
When all knew, of a surety,
that Rüdeger was dead,
The warriors bewail’d him,
as love and fealty bade.
From each of Dietrich’s liegemen
one saw the tears-drops fall
O’er chin and beard descending:
sore was the grief of all.