Volume 9 / Act 4 — SCENE XIV
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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!