lordly vesture.

Then spake the king: "Ye knights must say from me all that I bid
you to mighty Siegfried and the sister of mine; this must ye not
conceal: that no one in the world doth love them more, and beg
them both to come to us to the Rhine. For this I and my lady
will be ever at your service. At the next Midsummer's Day shall
he and his men gaze upon many here, who would fain do them great
honor. Give to the king Siegmund my greetings, and say that I
and my kinsmen be still his friends, and tell my sister, too,
that she fail not to ride to see her kin. Never did feasting
beseem her better."

Brunhild and Uta and whatever ladies were found at court all
commended their service to the lovely dames and the many valiant
men in Siegfried's land. With the consent of the kinsmen of the
king the messengers set forth. They rode as wandering knights;
their horses and their trappings had now been brought them. Then
they voided the land, for they had haste of the journey, whither
they would fare. The king bade guard the messengers well with
convoys. In three weeks they came riding into the land, to
Nibelung's castle, in the marches of Norway, (1) whither they
were sent. Here they found the knight. The mounts of the
messengers were weary from the lengthy way.

Both Siegfried and Kriemhild were then told that knights were
come, who wore such clothes as men were wont to wear at Burgundy.
She sprang from a couch on which she lay to rest and bade a
maiden hie her to the window. In the court she saw bold Gere
standing, him and the fellowship that had been sent thither.