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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: merciful. But she went first into Hagen's prison, and promised to spare his life if he would return that of which he had robbed her. Hagen declared that he had vowed not to reveal the whereabouts of the treasure so long as any one of his lords should be alive. Then Kriemhild caused her brother's head to be struck off, and holding it by the hair, carried it to Hagen. He alone now knew the place where the treasure was concealed ; never, he vowed, should she learn it from him. But she was still in possession of Siegfried's sword, which he had worn when last she saw him. She brandished it in her two hands, and struck off Hagen's head. Old Hildebrand could not bear to see the bravest of knights slain by a woman. Enraged, he rushed upon her, and with a fierce blow cut her to pieces. Thus all their honour was laid low. The festival ended in woe, as all mirth ends in sorrow. [After Uhland.J III. The Historical Foundation Of The Saga. In German and Norse sources mention is made of a Burgundian king Giblch, Norse Gjuki [in the Nibelun- lied his name is Dancrat] who is said to have three sons, Qunther, Gernot, Giselher; in Norse, Gunnar, Guthormr, Hqgni [Hagen stands for Giselher in the Seyfriedslied also]. The historical origin of some of these names may be proved. In the Lex Burgundionum, which was proclaimed at the beginning of the sixth century, King Gundobad enumerates his ancestors and predecessors : Gibica, Godomar, Glslaharius and Gundaharius. These four alliterative names are therefore an historical genealogy of ancient Burgundian kings. The list of names affords indeed no clue as to the relationship or the chronological order of the persons mentioned. Whether the four succeeded each other in the above order, or whether we must assume the three last (as in the saga) to have be...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780548088814
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 164
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 462 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548088810
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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