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The Nibelungenlied by Anonymous
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good and speedy envoys ride again. He sent word to his wife's
kindred on the Rhine, that he would full fain be at their
feasting. Siegfried and Kriemhild, as the tale doth tell, gave
the messengers such store of gifts that their horses could not
bear them to their native land. A wealthy man was he. They
drove their sturdy sumpters merrily along.

Siegfried and Siegmund arrayed their men. Eckewart, the
margrave, that very hour bade seek out ladies' robes, the best
that were at hand or might be found throughout all Siegfried's
land. Men gan prepare the saddles and the shields. To knights
and ladies who should go hence with him was given whatso they
would, so that they wanted naught. He brought to his kinsfolk
many a lordly stranger.

The messengers pricked fast upon their homeward way. Now was
Gere, the knight, come to Burgundy and was greeted fair. Then
they dismounted from their steeds and from the nags in front of
Gunther's hall. Young and old did hie them, as people do, to ask
the tidings. Quoth the good knight: "When I tell them to the
king, thou be at hand a hear."

With his fellowship he went to where he found King Gunther. For
very joy the king sprang from his seat. Fair Brunhild cried them
mercy, that they were come so quick. Gunther spake to the
envoys: "How fareth Siegfried, from whom so much of gladness hath
happed to me?"

Brave Gere spake: "He blushed for joy, he and your sister; no
truer tidings did ever any man send to friends, than the Lord
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