Alas!  That is the very thing I dreamed.

SIEGFRIED.

My child, the hills stand firm.

KRIEMHILD (throws her arms around him once more).

Come back!  Come back!

[Exeunt warriors.]

SCENE XII

KRIEMHILD.

Siegfried!

  SIEGFRIED (appears once more).

       What now?

  KRIEMHILD.

  If thou wouldst not be angry—­

  HAGEN (follows SIEGFRIED hastily).

  Well, hast thou got thy spindle yet?

  SIEGFRIED (to KRIEMHILD).

  Thou Nearest,
  The hounds can be no longer held in leash;
  What dost thou wish?

  HAGEN.

  Oh wait, pray, for thy flax! 
  And spin it in the moonlight with the elves.

  KRIEMHILD.

  Now go!  I longed to see thee once again!

      [HAGEN and SIEGFRIED go out.]

  SCENE XIII

  KRIEMHILD.

  And should I call him to me ten times more
  I’d never find the heart to tell it him. 
  How can we do what straightway we repent!

  SCENE XIV

  Enter GERENOT and GISELHER.

  KRIEMHILD.

  Are you not gone?  The Lord hath sent them here! 
  My dearest brothers, earnestly I beg
  Vouchsafe me my desire, though to you
  It seems but foolish.  Go ye with my lord
  Where’er he goes, and keep behind his back.

  GERENOT.

  We are not going.  We’ve no wish to go.

  KRIEMHILD.

  No wish to go!

  GISELHER.

  What say’st thou?  We’ve no time! 
  We’ve much to do before our men march forth.

  KRIEMHILD.

  And is all that intrusted to your youth? 
  If I am dear to you, if you have not
  Forgotten that one mother nourished us,
  Ride after them.

  GISELHER.

  They’re long since in the wood.

  GERENOT.

  And then thou hast one brother with him,
  now,

  KRIEMHILD.

  I beg of you!

  GISELHER.

  We must collect the arms,
  As thou shalt see.

  [Starts to go.]

  KRIEMHILD.

  Then tell me one thing more
  Is Hagen Siegfried’s friend?

  GERENOT.

  Why not, I pray?

  KRIEMHILD.

  But has he ever praised him?

  GISELHER.

  It is praise
  If Hagen does not blame, and I’ve not heard
  That he found fault with Siegfried.

  [Both leave.]

  KRIEMHILD.

  Most of all
  This frightens me.  They are not with my lord!

  SCENE XV

  Enter FRIGGA.

  KRIEMHILD.

  How, nurse?  Art seeking me?

  FRIGGA.

  I seek for none.