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Thus he dwelt with the lordings, of a truth, full a year in

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Schilbung and Nibelung greeted well the knight; with one accord these young and noble lordings bade the stately man divide the hoard.

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The lordings hied them to him and all three spake: “Now may ye know, Sir Siegfried, that our true service be ever at your bidding till our death.”

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But all the lordings and the king were hurt by what Hagen had spoken of the child; it vexed them sore, that they were forced to hear it.

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Whenever the lordings and their liegemen did play at knightly games, Siegfried was aye the best, whatever they began.

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The lordings and their men would still fain have lived, had any listed to do them mercy, but they could find none among those of the Hunnish land.

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Still they let the lordings stand in the court, only these twain alone men saw walk hence far across the court before a spacious palace.

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Those set to guard the strangers had well seen that the guests still lived, despite the damage and the dole that had been done both to the lordings and their men.

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When the Thuringians and the Danes espied their lordings dead, there rose before the hall a fearful strife, before they gained the door with mighty hand.

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Then the lusty knights craved leave to go, and this the lordings did in courtly wise.

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