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Intimidated, Gudrun agrees. At their wedding feast, Atli drinks to Gudrun, moved both by her beauty and by dreams of the dragon hoard. He takes Gudrun back to Hunland, but his lust for the dragon hoard remains unquenched and he summons the Niflungs to a feast in Hunland. Högni suspects a trap. Gudrun sends Gunnar a wooden slab with "runes of ...
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
The attachment of Gudrun's legend to that of Ermanaric (Jǫrmunrek) and Svanhild is a Scandinavian innovation that brings this legend into direct contact with the more famous legend of Sigurd. [117] Edward Haymes and Susan Samples believe that it is a relatively late development. [ 118 ]
Attila the Hun (Atli) gets his revenge by killing the lords of the Burgundians in this section of the Poetic Edda.. The Dráp Niflunga is a short prose section in the Poetic Edda between Helreið Brynhildar and Guðrúnarkviða II.
Then Sigurd comes, breaks through the wall of fire, and they sleep together. When he leaves, however, Gudrun and her mother Grimhild cast a spell on Sigurd so that he forgets Brunhild and marries Gudrun. Some time later Brunhild and Gudrun argue in the bath, with Gudrun refusing to share water with Brunhild.
Gustaf Skarsgard, Bill Skarsgard and Alexander Skarsgard Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic/Getty Images Stellan Skarsgård was the first in his family to get a big break in Hollywood — but he isn’t the ...
In Guðrúnarkvíða III, Saxi is a German lord who is summoned to bless a boiling kettle where Gudrun will successfully immerse her hands in a trial by ordeal by hot water, in order to dispel the rumours that she has been unfaithful to her husband Atli . [101] Guðrúnarkvíða III: Saxi flettir Old Norse: Saxi flettir
See Gudrun/Kriemhild Kudrun: Middle High German: Kûdrûn, in the manuscript Chaudrun, Chutrum. [109] Not historical. See Gudrun. Name probably derives from a Low Franconian version of the Norse name. [110] Daughter of Hilde and Heoden (Hetel), granddaughter of Hagene 2. She is betrothed to Herwig von Seeland, but the rejected Norman suitor ...