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Scholarly opinion diverges as to which name is more original: either both names are old, [10] the name Gudrun is the original name and the name Kriemhild a later invention, [7] or the name Kriemhild is the original name and the name Gudrun was created to share the same first element as the other Burgundians Gunther (Gunnar) and Guthorm (see ...
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Ortlieb is the son of Kriemhild (Gudrun) and Etzel (Atli) and a minor figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature. He is definitively named in the Nibelungenlied . Here, he is decapitated by Hagen , after the latter hears of Bloedelin 's attack on the Burgundians , which Kriemhild had urged him to undertake.
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Brunhild declares that Kriemhild is the wife of a vassal, to which Kriemhild replies that Siegfried has taken Brunhild's virginity, showing her the belt and ring as proof. Brunhild bursts into tears and Kriemhild enters the church before her. Brunhild then goes to Gunther and Gunther forces Siegfried to confirm that this is not the case.
Siegfried cuts the dragon in half while Kriemhild watches. Woodcut from an early modern printing of Hürnen Seyfrid.. Das Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid ("The Song of Horn-skinned Siegfried"; [1] "Lay of Seyfrid with the Horny Skin" [2] [a]), or Hürnen Seyfrid for short, is an anonymous Early New High German heroic ballad.
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