l not be denied them.
Merry and blithe will I be, an' they come unto my house."

"Dankwart, the marshal, bade let you know whom ye should lodge in your
house with them: sixty doughty champions, a thousand good knights, and
nine thousand men-at-arms."

Merry of mood grew Rudeger; he spake: "Now well is me of these guests,
that these noble warriors be coming to my house, whom I have served as
yet full seldom. Now ride ye forth for to meet them, my kinsmen and my
men."

Knights and squires now hied them to their horses; it thought them
right, which their lord did bid. All the more they hasted with their
service. As yet Lady Gotelind wist it not, who sate within her bower.

ENDNOTES:
(1) "Adventure XXVI". This adventure is a late interpolation,
as it is not found in the "Thidreksaga". Originally the
river must be thought of as separating them from Etzel's
kingdom.
(2) "Moering" (M.H.G. "Moeringen") lies between Pforing and
Ingolstadt. In the "Thidreksaga" we are told that the
mermaids were bathing in a body of water called "Moere",
whereas in our poem they bathe in a spring. This may be the
original form of the account and the form here contaminated.
See Boer, i, 134.
(3) "Eckewart", see Adventure I, note 15. It will be remembered
that he accompanied Kriemhild first to the Netherlands, then
stayed with her at Worms after Siegfried's death, and
finally journeyed with her to Etzel's court. Originally he
must be thought of as guarding the boundary of Etzel's land.
Without doubt he originally warned the Burgundians, as in
the early Norse versions, where Kriemhild fights on the side
of her brothers, but since this duty was given to Dietrich,
he has nothing to do but to announce their arrival to
Rudeger. His sleeping here may, however, be thought to
indicate that it was too late to warn Gunther and his men.

ADVENTURE XXVII. How They Came To Bechelaren.

Then the margrave went to where he found the ladies, his wife with his
daughter, and told them straightway the pleasing tidings he had heard,
that the brothers of their lady were coming thither to their house.
"My dearest love," quoth Rudeger, "ye must receive full well the noble
high-born kings, when they come here to court with their fellowship. Ye
must give fair greeting, too, to Hagen, Gunther's