Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (andbt?enfure HOW SIEGFRIED WAS MOURNED AND BURIED HEY tarried there that night, and then crossed the Rhine. Heroes never went to so woeful a hunt. For one thing that they slew, many women wept, and many a good knight's body paid for it. Of overweening pride ye shall hear now, and grim vengeance. Hagen bade them bear dead Siegfried of the Nibelung land before the chamber where Kriemhild was, and charged them to lay him secretly outside the door, that she might find him there when she went forth to mass or it was day, the which she was wont to do. The minster bell was rung as the custom was. Fair Kriemhild waked her maidens, and bade them bring her a light and her vesture. Then a chamberlain came and found Siegfried. He saw him red with blood, and his garment all wet, but he knew not yet that he was his king. He carried the light into the room in his hand, and from him Kriemhild heard evil tidings. When she would have gone with her women to the minster,the chamberlain said, " Lady, stop ! A murdered knight lieth on the threshold." "Woe is me!" cried Kriemhild. "What meanest thou by such news ? " Or she knew for certain that it was her husband, she began to think on Hagen's question, how he might guard him. From that moment her dole began ; for, with his death, she took leave of all joy. She sank on the floor speechless ; they saw the miserable woman lying there. Kriemhild's woe was great beyond measure, and after her swoon she cried out, that all the chamber rang. Then said her attendants, " What if it be a stranger ?" But the blood burst from her mouth by reason of her heart's anguish, and she said, "Nay, it is Siegfried, my dear husband. Brunhild hath counselled it, and Hagen hath done it." The lady bade them show her where the hero lay. She lif... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.