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home of the Nibelungen myth, it certainly lost all trace of this significance, and in the Nibelungenlied Kriemhild is no more than a beautiful princess, the daughter of See also:

King Dancrlt and See also:

Queen Uote, and See also:

SISTER

sister of the Burgundian See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings See also:

GUNTHER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1695-1723)

Gunther, Giselher and Gernot, the masters of the Nibelungen hoard. As she appears in the Nibelungen See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, however, Kriemhild would seem to have an See also:

HISTORICAL

historical origin, as the wife of See also:

ATTILA (d. 453)

Attila, king of the See also:

HUNS

Huns, as well as sister of the Nibelung kings. According to Jerdanes (c. 49), who takes his See also:

INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information from the See also:

con-temporary and trustworthy See also:

account of See also:

PRISCUS

Priscus, Attila died of a violent hemorrhage at See also:

NIGHT

night, as he See also:

lay beside a girl named Ildico (i.e. O. H. Ger. Hildiko).

The See also:

story got abroad that hehad perished by the See also:

hand-of a woman in revenge for her relations slain by him; according to some (e.g. Saxo Poeta and the Quedlinburg See also:

CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

chronicle) it was her See also:

FATHER

father whom she revenged; but when the treacherous overthrow of the Burgundians by Attila had become a theme for epic poets, she figured as a Burgundian princess, and her See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as done in revenge for her See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers. Now the name Hildiko is the diminutive of See also:

HILDA, ST

Hilda or Hild, which again —in accordance with a See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom See also:

COMMON

common enough—may have been used as an See also:

ABBREVIATION (Lat. brevis, short)

abbreviation of Grimhild (cf. Hildr for Brynhildr). It has been suggested (See also:

Symons, Heldensage, p. 55) that when the legend of the overthrow of the Burgundians, which took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in 437, became attached to that of the death of Attila (453), Hild, the supposed sister of the Burgundian kings, was identified with the daemonic Grimhild, the sister of the mythical Nibelung brothers, and thus helped the See also:

PROCESS

process by which the Nibelung myth became fused with the historical story of the fall of the Burgundian See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom. The older story, according to which Grimhild slays her See also:

HUSBAND

husband Attila in revenge for her brothers, is preserved in the Norse tradition, though Grimhild's See also:

PART

part is played by See also:

GUDRUN (KUDRUN)

Gudrun, a See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change probably due to the fact, mentioned above, that the name Grimhild still retained in the north its sinister significance. The name of Grimhild is transferred to Gudrun's See also:

MOTHER

mother, the " See also:

wise wife," a semi-daemonic figure, who brews the potion that makes See also:

SIGURD (Sigur6r)

Sigurd forget his love for See also:

BRUNHILD (M.H.Ger. Briinhilt or Priinhilt, Nor. Brynhild?)

Brunhild and his plighted troth. In the Nibelungenlied, however, the See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive supremacy of the See also:

BLOOD

blood-tie has given place to the more See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of the supremacy of the See also:

PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion of love, and Kriemhild marries Attila (Etzel) in See also:

order to See also:

COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass the death of her brothers, in revenge for the See also:

MURDER

murder of Siegfried. Theodor Abeling, who is disposed to reject or minimize the mythical origins, further suggests a confusion of the story of Attila's wife Ildico with that of the murder of Sigimund the Burgundian by the sons of Chrothildis, wife of See also:

CLOVIS [Chlodovech] (c. 466-511)

Clovis. (See NIBELUNGENLIED.) See B. Symons, Germanische Heldensage (See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, t9o5) ; F.

Zarnke, Das Nibelungenlied, p. ii. (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1875) ; T. Abeling, Einleitung in das Nibelungenlied (See also:

FREIBURG

Freiburg-irn-See also:

BREISGAU

Breisgau, 1909). (W. A.

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