Averture Iii The Song About The Nibelungs How Zigfrid Has Arrived In The Worms Poem by Yuri Starostin

Averture III
How Zigfrid has arrived in the Vorms

So the courageous warrior flourish, knowing no a cares,
While has not heard at his o'clock and in his turn
About the Burgundian girl that so was lovely.
She has brought both the happiness and the grief to Zigfrid.
The rumor about her beauty went on the many countries,
All praised her for a sweet temper and sense,
And so the rumour about her everywhere captivated a men,
That Gunter has not a release from the guests.
But between those which would enter in the marriage with her willingly,
Nobody to Krimhilda was not so nice and love,
That could be reign in the heart of the princess:
Yet the girl did not know the one that betrothed her.
Meanwhile Zigfrid began to think: whom to take in the spouses?
Who would dare to refuse to such groom?
Who is from the noble women did not thirst for the marriage with him?
Krimhilda was loved him so then no a mean out.
Even more often he dream on the love day by day,
And all of the team and a relatives became more persistent
To repeat, that he has chosen the equal on a birth in the wife.
And Zigfrid so replied on these precepts:
«I want to enter marriage with the Burgundian princess-
Nobody's beauty cannot eclipse the beauty of Krimhilda.
The glory emperor, dream on the wife,
Would consider her the bride, dignified quite ».
All court yard get the worry, having learn his answer,
And Zigmund was afflicted for the son.
The old man-king was afraid that love of his successor
To the young Burgundian will end by a trouble.
When Zigmund has told to Ziglinda about all,
She has begun to grieve for her offspring:
The Burgundian inspired the big fear to her primordinary.
And they undertook to dissuade the son together.
But ardent Zigfrid said: «My dear father,
I better will not go never under a wreath,
If I can not marry that I love,
And as much you be angry, I will not concede to you in it ».
«Well, if you are so persevering, - the king is in the answer to him, -
I will not begin to contradict your desire
And I will facilitate to you your works that I have a power.
But remember: a people of Gunter are haughty and proud.
And courageous Hagen costs all of other, taken together.
Jealously he is baked about a royal honor.
Look, my son you have that a quarrels did not leave with him,
If we will decide to woo to such beauty girl».
Zigfrid has grinned only: «Father, yes what is to me in that?
If I will not receive the bride in the good,
I by the force will pull her out the brothers-kings,
And their lands and citizens I will take in an addition to her ».
The king to hin, frowning: «Dangerous words!
And suddenly the rumor will bear its to Rhine to the Burgundian?
Then no to see to you forever their countries:
I know, Gunter with Gernot are brave and strong ».
«To that, - Zigmund has added, - I remember, my darling son,
That to take the bride for you is not befit by the force.
But if you wants to take protection with yourself there,
I will find without an effort to you the reliable companions».
The king's son has answered: « I go no to a campaign,
And to go me with the team to the Burgundian no an account.
To get the love of Krimhilda hardly I will can,
If I will be imposed in the husbands by the force of the weapon to her.
No, I will procure her only by the valour.
I go-twelve to the Burgundian in the Vorms for her.
And you I ask to dress decent my fighters ».
Here Zigmund has grant them the furs of the two colours.
Ziglinda has begun to cry, having know about the betrothal, -
So became fearsome to her for the son.
And suddenly any more there will be no a way back to him?
Suddenly the people of Gunter will deprive her child of a life?
But he gone to the rooms where mother has grieved,
And begun to console the queen lovely:
«To shed a tears to you, mother, about the son de trop.
I will take up in a fight with any opponent easily.
You do better those, that goes with me in the stranger edge,
Supply on the road by such clothes,
To appear in that, we could without a shame,
And I will tell the great thanks for it to you».
She is in the answer: «If you soon stand one`s ground,
I will not refuse you, my child, no in anywhat
And I will give such dress to all your companions,
That the noblest knights envied them ».
The king's son has give her the grateful bow.
«A few people with me, - he politely said, -
Will be only twelve of us. Equip the son in a way.
I would like to look at proud Krimhilda ».
Ziglinda has called the ladies, and they do to help,
Diligently sat day and night at the work.
And they cope to sew the clothes to Zigfrid to the term.
He has not listened to the requests of the citizens to postpone the trip.
That the son with the honor has left the native land limit,
The father ordered to supply by the military armor.
Neither a chain armors shining, nor a helmets, nor a boards
He has not regretted for Zigfrid and for his fighters.
But here the time has come to Burgundian to hold the way.
All of the court yard, wailing, was going to farewell the hero.
Who knew, Zigfrid will return either home, to the relatives?
The luggage the travellers was laid on the pack horses,
And deed dexterously sat down on the dashing racers.
Their harness sparkled by the golden furnish.
To be proud oneself no suit for the such fighters.
The son has asked the parents: «Permit to go to us».
Those give the permitation though them the fear tormented,
And Zigfrid has tenderly told to parting:
«In vain be not anxious, do not cry about me.
You can are quiet for my life to be quite ».
The tears smothered the women, the melancholy oppressed men.
They indulged the damp no without the reasons:
The heart prompted during that instant, likely, to them,
That await to cry for much of them on the relative and on the native.
The dawn of the seventh day has found in a way the heroes.
The fighters skipped to the Vorms, ringing by the weapon.
They rode at full speed on a track along the Rhine,
And their military attire gleamed by the gold.
All are in the strong sonorous helmets, everyone has a new board,
They showed to a look a magnificent kind.
The world did not know equal to them - so the expensive dress
Anyone carried whom Zigfrid was taken to Burgundy.
Their tip of the swords hanged down to the spurs.
Everyone has a spear of the big weight,
Zigfrid has- exactly in the two spans of the thickness.
Easily the steel end was unstitched the armor.
They have and the horses were handsome go though anywhere -
The percian one from the silk, the golden bridle.
The people have run together to stare on the strangers heroes.
Then and the people of Gunter come to meet them.
Here the knights to the visitors hasten from a different directions
And, as the custom orders, make the bow to them.
The boards the esquires remove from the arms of the visitors
And carefully take their horses on the bridle.
They already conduct the tired horses in the stalls,
But Zigfrid, the courageous hero, asks the Burgundians here:
«No, no, let our horses remain at us.
We again in a way intend to started up in this hour.
You to us do not refuse in the great service:
I want to know, where is Gunter, the lord of the Burgundy.
Who knows it, to that to be silent no to behoove ».
And the one Burgundian so has said to Zigfrid in the answer:
«If indeed the king is necessary to you, as you have told now,
It is possible to see him in that spacious hall.
He sits there in a circle of his team,
Listening the highly experienced and valorous husbands ».
Meanwhile the Vormsers whispered to their lord,
That the notable stranger has visited to him
With the retinue in a magnificent dress, in the sparkling armor,
And as to call them- anybody does not know in all country.
Gunter at all around who was enquired,
Whence these people come in an expensive attire -
Everyone has the brilliant sword, the wide new board,
And he has been annoyed that the court yard is silent in the answer.
But here Ortvin Metssky stand up and has told to the king
(That was the mighty soldier and the devoted vassal) :
«Let my uncle Hagen will come and will take a look
On the unfamiliar heroes that stand at the gate.
He knows them, I warrant in it.
He has travelled all countries and edges no without a reason».
Hasty the king has sent messengers for Hagen,
And the hero has arrived to a palace with the crowd of the fighters.
Hagen has asked with the bow -what is necessary for the king.
«The noble warrior came in Vorms with the retinue,
And who is he - is not known. Throw the sight at the newcomers.
Perhaps, you will tell to us, whence our visitors come».
'All right', - the hero said, has opened the window in the court yard
And has fixed the sharp look in the coming dare men.
And Hagen has been admired by their dress and gun.
But has understood that he could not see them in Burgundy,
And said: «These people, whence they come,
Either the kings messengers, or indeed the kings.
They have the wonderfully well horses, and the dress is good.
At once you know in them the notable knights by the kind ».
«I am to you, - Hagen have added, - I can warrant quite,
Though and no due to me to meet Zigfrid,
That is he with the retinue stand before the palace.
He show at once himself both the bearing and the face.
Already a lot of the messages come to us about him.
He has struck the nibelungs, the two brothers-kings:
Shilbung was the senior and the Nibelung was younger from them
That fight has eclipsed all feats, that he do .
I have heard that is without a retinue, that is friend with his horse,
Once Zigfrid went and sees suddenly the mountain,
And same fighters are the crowd at the foot of a mountain
Then he yet did not know, who is these brave men.
That were the nibelungs, which once
Have buried the rich treasure there, on a mountain, in the cave,
And nowadays decide to get and to divide.
Such show could surprise anybody.
More close the hero has approached the crowd of the stranger fighters,
And, noticed the traveller, one of them has exclaimed:
„There, Zigfrid of the Niderland, the glorified hero! ."
Yes, the dare man has see up the miracles under that mountain!
Here Shilbung with the Nibelung to meet him go on.
Listened to the general council, the kings asked,
That the brave hero grant to divide them the treasure,
And they were so persevering that Zigfrid has conceded.
There the precious stones was such heap,
That would not take away therefrom its on the hundred supplies,
And the gold, perhaps, and moreover.
The treasure was that, and the hero had to divide it.
He took the sword of Nibelungs in an award for the works,
But he has got by his help only to a trouble:
The two brothers remain are dissatisfied by the sharing
And have quarrelled with Zigfrid, blaming him in all.
Though protected the person of the kings
The twelve giants, the dashing athletes, -
What is to sense? Zigfrid has lifted Balmung, the kind sword,
And the giants heads have fallen from the shoulders in a grass.
He has exterminated in the fight the seven hundreds Nibelungs,
And those who are younger, fearing for his life,
Asked him tearfully that he has deigned henceforth
By their earth and towers as a sovereign, to hold.
Then the warrior has rendered to the two brothers-kings,
Though, depriving them of life, just and he was not die:
Albrih ventured the fight with him, revenging for his misters,
But the dwarf has experienced the defeat in his turn.
He could not to compete and with such opponent.
The winner has flied up on the mountain, as a lion, behind him,
Has taken away the raincoat-invisible, and there was Albrih taken in a captivity.
And there was a treasure in the power of Zigfrid in this way.
Having punished all that has entered in the fight with him,
The hero ordered, that the treasure on the saving
Has disposed to the secret cave again,
And he were put Albrih by the guard to the treasure.
And that has sworn to him to become his slave, -
Owner Trone has told and continued again:
- Such brave Zigfrid is, most brave of the husbands.
Till nowaday yet the world did not see of the fighter, is stronger him.
I can tell and another about him.
He has killed the terrible dragon by the sword,
Was washed in his blood and all has become horny.
Since then strike him by anything, he remains is whole.
Should be accepted with the honour the young warrior,
That no a coardiality he has not rendered by the enmity to us.
Will be better involve that one by the caress to us,
Which makes the miracles, let his sword go on».
Mighty Gunter has told: «Our courageous Hagen is right.
All convicts the uncontrollable temper of the visitor.
He is in the fight, judging on the kind, is ready to enter always.
Towards him should to me leave, misters ».
«And this is, - Hagen, - for the honour no a loss.
After all he is not the first comer, and is born by the king.
In addition such fighter to us from the another's earth,
The affairs are not trifling, likely, have resulted ».
The Burgundian king is in the answer: «This visitor is pleasant to us:
After all we have known now that he and is dared and is notable.
Here he will find the honourable and tender reception ».
And Gunter left to Zigfrid with the all his court yard.
The Burgundians has been meet the notable guest politely.
To know the people more hospitably to him no possible,
And he has made to Gunter the bow from the all of the soul
For that, the owners so were good with him.
The king immediately has asked: «I would like to know,
Somehow and somewhat you have got to this country.
What is necessary, courageous Zigfrid, on the Rhine in the Vormse to you? »
And the visitor has told to the owner: «The answer willingly I will give.
I have heard in the father country from the people no once,
That the many dashing fighters console for you.
Any king would be proud on such vassals.
And I wanted match with them by the forces.
Tell also that you are brave and indeed,
That is equal in the fearlessness to you is not present between a kings.
The rumor rattles about you on the adjacent countries,
And I thirst to be convinced, as far as it is right.
As you are, I am- too the hero, and the crown waits for me,
But to prove to me is necessary that I am worthy a throne
And that hold by the right of the country I can.
I bet the honor and a head as a deposit that I do not lie to you.
If indeed the world did not see more brave of the fighter than you,
I will not begin to ask, you agree or are not,
And I will start the fight with you and if I will take up,
I take away at you all your lands with the towers ».
The king and his court yard were surprised a lot of,
When they have known from their visitor,
That he has solved to take away all of the property from them.
The silent anger smothered a revolted team.
«Well no, - Gunter has answered, the master of the Burgundy, -
That our parent owned so long and with the honor,
Forever I will not allow to the stranger to take hold
Or to be called the knight I will be deprived the right henceforth ».
Obstinately Zigfrid said: «I stand one`s ground,
And if You will be not broken me by the gun in the fight,
I will sit down on your throne, as you will sit down on mine,
So far as to result me in the forces You have up.
My heritage costs your Burgundian lands.
So let the number of the possession and of the citizens will double
That one which will kill another and will resolve our dispute ».
Here courageous Hagen with Gernot have got into the conversation.
Gernot has exclaimed: «What do you do! What is to us to enmity?
We will have not the lands at another to beat off -
And the Burgundian country is extensive without that.
As a patrimony, it belongs by the right to us».
Gernot has angered so the friends by the answer,
That Ortvin Metssky, the glorified dare man has thrown:
«Your peacefulness is not to like to me.
After all the visitor were offended all of us by the challenge without a cause.
Let even he with the whole army will come to us here,
And our people will be left you and your brothers,
I am alone will fight with him up to the end
And a habit to brag I will scare away the arrogant man ».
The warrior of the Netherlands has reddened for the anger:
«To compete with me to you no to should though you and are dared.
I am a mighty sovereign, and you are a simple vassal.
No to cope and a dozen of such, as you, with me ».
Ortvin Metssky was taken the sword out by the one movement -
Hagen was the native uncle to him no in vain.
But the fighter from the Trone was silent, than all surprised.
Fortunately, Gernot has stopped Ortvin during that instant.
He has exclaimed: «To you, Ortvin, it is necessary to restrain -
After all meanwhile Zigfrid has not caused to us an insults.
To cope with him will honorable for us in good.
Then we have not the foe, and will find the friend in him ».
Mighty Hagen said: «As each your vassal,
I am caused by our visitor: he has clearly shown,
That intentionally has arrived to us with the evil malice here,
Though you, our misters, have not a hurt to him ».
Courageous Zigfrid has answered: «If is not on the customs to you
That I have told, Hagen, here to your misters,
It is necessary to you to see, how I will take
All Burgundy under the arm, and will be broken them in the fight ».
«I will not admit a quarrel», - Gernot has interfered here
And has ordered to the vassals, let all conduct themself
So, that no to irritate the visitors by the haughty speech.
Zigfrid has become silent also, fear to lose Krimhilda.
Gernot has said: «To fight to you with us no a calculation.
After all that the colour of our countries is falling useless,
Will be the honor of a little to us, to use is not to you too».
And Zigfrid, offspring of Zigmund, has told to him in the answer:
«Why so Hagen hesitates and Ortvin has ceased?
What they do not send their friends on me?
Or those are afraid a fights and their heat is cool? »
The Burgundian have not answered - Gernot has forbidden them.
The son of Uta said again: «I ask you to be the guest.
Here all are glad to please you and to your people.
And I am with my relatives always to serve ready».
And he began to treat the mighty strangers by the wine.
Majestic Gunter has told: «Ask on the good -
And will not meet never a refusal in anywhat.
All - the life and the property - we will give all for you ».
The anger of mister Zigfrid has died away from these words.
The Burgundians have helped to the visitors to remove an armor
And allot them the best rooms in a palace.
There the rest waited Zigfrid and the retinue after the journey.
Since then the hero in Burgundy became the welcome guest.
Those honors that showered him there,
And I will describe a thousand part hardly probable.
He has been obliged for it only to his valours:
Whoever has meet to Zigfrid, all admired him.
The court yard would play by anywhat fun military,
Zigfrid was first in everyone, to all in defiance.
Whether in a throwing of the spears, either in a throwing of the stones
He was of any contenders more slick and strong.
When the fighters had a good time in the evenings
By the courteous conversation in a circle of the fine ladies,
Those did not take away the eyes from their guest -
Sincere his speech breathed by that passion.
He was always glad to help them in all inventions,
But he is dreamt only on Krimhilda and a day and a night,
And she is though yet he did not see the maiden,
Secretly even more often thought, how he is dared and is strong.
Just the youth will begun the fun in a court yard,
You will not tear off the princess from the window by a force:
She looks at the knightly games all the day long,
And more any entertainment is not necessary to her.
If Zigfrid know about it as the hero would be glad,
That Krimhilda sight a warm glance on him!
After all he by all heart is thirsted so ardently and for a long time,
That the darling to meet him has allow.
When the game interrupted for the rest
And the guest in the crowd of the heroes stood among a court yard,
The brave son of Ziglinda was so good indeed,
That he awoke the gentle feelings in any woman.
Quite often Zigfrid thought: «When the excuse I will be found
Personally to see young Krimhilda?
I loved ardently and guested here for a long time,
But I has not meet yet so I am long ».
When the kings made the detour of a possession,
They with themselves took all colour of their earth
And - to a grief of the princess - the guest accompanied them.
He had not once to grieve on the girl.
Here so, - and I bail that the rumor does not lie, -
The warrior has lived in the land of the Burgundians whole year,
But still he did not see the woman that has been captivated him,
With whom he were experienced then the happiness and the suffering.