ENDNOTES:
(1) "Norway". The interpolated character of the Adventures XI
to XIII, which are not found in the earlier versions, is
shown by the confusion in the location of Siegfried's court.
The poet has forgotten that Xanten is his capital, and
locates it in Norway. No mention is made, however, of the
messengers crossing the sea; on the contrary, Kriemhild
speaks of their being sent down the Rhine.



ADVENTURE XIII
How They Journeyed To The Feasting.

Let us now take leave of all their bustling, and tell how Lady
Kriemhild and her maidens journeyed from the Nibelung land down
toward the Rhine. Never did sumpters bear so much lordly
raiment. They made ready for the way full many traveling chests.
Then Siegfried, the knight, and the queen as well, rode forth
with their friends to where they had hope of joys. Later it sped
them all to their great harm. They left Siegfried's little
child, Kriemhild's son, at home. That must needs be. Great
grief befell him through their journey to the court. The bairn
never saw his father and his mother more. With them, too, there
rode Lord Siegmund. Had he known aright how he would fare at the
feasting, no whit of it would he have seen. No greater woe might
ever hap to him in loving friends.