commended to your care my castles and my lands, till that King
Gunther's hand rule here."

Then twenty hundred of her men she chose, who should fare with
her hence to Burgundy, together with those thousand warriors from
the Nibelung land. They dressed their journey; one saw them
riding forth upon the sand. Six and eighty dames they took along
and thereto a hundred maids, their bodies passing fair. No
longer now they tarried, for they were fain to get them hence.
Ho, what great wail was made by those they left at home! In
courtly wise she voided thus her land. She kissed her nearest
kinsmen who were found at court. After a fair leave-taking they
journeyed to the sea. To her fatherland the lady nevermore
returned. Many kinds of games were seen upon the way; pastimes
they had galore. A real sea breeze did help them on their
voyage. Thus they fared forth from the land fully merrily. She
would not let her husband court her on the way; this pleasure was
deferred until their wedding-tide in the castle, their home, at
Worms, to which in good time she came right joyfully with all her
knights.


ENDNOTES:
(1) Adventure VIII. This whole episode, in which Siegfried
fetches men to aid Gunther in case of attempted treachery on
Brunhild's part, is of late origin and has no counterpart in
the older versions. It is a further development of
Siegfried's fight in which he slew Schilbung and Nibelung
and became the ruler of the Nibelung land. The fight with
Alberich is simply a repetition of the one in the former