. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . thrust his sword through the broidered mark to Sieg-frieds heart; and though wounded unto death, thehero arose and smote him so powerfully that theplains and hills resounded with the blows. Ere longdeaths pale seal was stamped upon Siegfrieds manlyface, and amid the sweet field-flowers the matchlessking fell. With his dying breath the wounded knight spakeout: All regret is for my wife, Kriemhilda, sodear to me. Let her receive protecting graciousnessand brother-love. The flowers all about were redwith Siegfrie
. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . thrust his sword through the broidered mark to Sieg-frieds heart; and though wounded unto death, thehero arose and smote him so powerfully that theplains and hills resounded with the blows. Ere longdeaths pale seal was stamped upon Siegfrieds manlyface, and amid the sweet field-flowers the matchlessking fell. With his dying breath the wounded knight spakeout: All regret is for my wife, Kriemhilda, sodear to me. Let her receive protecting graciousnessand brother-love. The flowers all about were redwith Siegfrieds blood, and so died the gallant chiefof the Netherlands. The knights laid him on a red-gold shield, and consulted together how they mightbest succeed in concealing the true cause of his death,and they agieed to tell Kriemhilda that her spousewould hunt alone and so was slain by robbers. Thensaid the ireful Hagen, What care I who knows thatit was I who killed the knight who could so woundour own high-born queen ? THE BURIAL OF SIEGFRIED. 57 CHAPTER VIII. THE BURIAL OF AGEN gave commands to his mento place the red-gold shield bear-ing the lifeless form and thepowerful weapons of Siegfriedbefore Kriemhildas door, whereshe perforce mnst find it. At^ A^ the usual time the minsteri^>^^ bell summoned the piouslv i^V to prayers, and Kriemhildai ^1 rose and waked her maids,^ and bade them bring a lightand send her robing-maid toher. As they left the cham-ber to go to mass, Kriemhilda saw the slaughteredSiegfried, and she cried out in heart-rending tones, Woes me ! there liest thou with thy shield un-injured by noble combatants in fight, which provesthat thou hast been treacherously slain. Would thatI knew who did the deed ! His death should be rayonly care, The dames and maids all joined her 58 THE STOUT OF THE GERMAN ILIAD. in a shrill lament. Then the much-afflicted queenspeedily summoned Sir Siegfrieds loyal knights, whosprang from their downy beds and hurried to whe
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