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year with these people, and is thrown
more or less with Kriemnild, who finds

year with these people, and is thrown
more or less with Kriemnild, who finds
an innocent pleasure in his presence.
st last he makes an agreement with
Gunther, who loves the strong maiden
of the north, Brunhild, who can be won
| only by one who vanQuishes her in
feats of strength When Siegfried has
assisted MIN to win this maiden Gun
Their agrees to assist Siegfried with
| kriemhild. Through the help of a
cloak of invisibility which Siegfried
dons this plan is carried out and soon
| double wedding is held at Wonns.
Gunther soon finds himself unable
| to keep his wife within bounds, and
often calls upon Siegfried to aid him
with his supernatural powers. While
doing so Siegfried wrests from Brun-
hid her ring and afterwards gives 1t
to Kriemhild. Between the two wom-
Gu also there is trouble. While quar-
reling about the relative virtues OF
their two husbands one day. krlemhlld
tells Brunhild of the ring. Brunhlld
now seeks revenge. Hager. who 1ur-
niSheS the evil element or tne story,
learns from krienhild OF Slegfrleds
enc vulnerable spot. place the size
Of leaf on his shoulder. At the in
stigation of Brunhild he makes use OF
his knowledge and murders Siegfr1ed.
At the funeral. when Hager enters the
room, Siegfried's wounds open and
| thus Krienhild learns who was the
murderer. This ends the first part
of the story
Thirteen years pass, sorrowful years
for kriemhild. Then came Rudiger.
Attila's most prominent knight, and
l. ,,,ffo {e
and spends thirteen years more at
the Hungarian court. But she has new.
er forgotten her wrongs and now her
plans for vengeance take form. She
invites the entire tribe of Nibelungers
to mighty festival and in spite of ON
mus signs they come. Kriemhild's
revenge is complete. The entire tribe
is slaughtered and the bodies thrown
kriemhild Stays Hager and is herself
killed by the famous Hilderbrand.
"The mighty and the noble lay there
together dead;
J For this mad all the people dole ant
J drierihea1,
The feast of royal Etzel was thu:
: shut up in woe.
: Pain in the steps of pleasure tread:
ever here below.
"Tis more than l can tell you wha
, afterwards befell,
Save that there was weeping TO
y friends loved SO WE'LL
Knights and squires. danes and dam
-. sells. were seen lamenting all;
: So here | end my story; this is thu
, Nieblunger's Fall"
!. Such was the story of the great cpl
r. which holds the same relation to Gel
a. man history, that "Boewulf" does t.
q, English The legends and poems ur
. Oh which it is based had their origil
d in the long continued struggles whicl
N resulted in the overthrow of the Ron
20 an empire and the establishment O
il modern European civilization. Whe
g legends have no other means of Gil
# culation than through the memorie
T. OF men they are soon apt to assum
N an air of mystery. and in the cOurs
10 of years some elements of the supe
q. natural So with the stories whic
n the unknown author of "Nibelunge
lv Lied wove into a single connecte
70 story.
m The poem in its present form wa
,t probably composed in the 18th Gel
h fury, but in a short time was forgo
a ten. During the centuries fOllOwin
Germany was passing through stru
giles which threatened the every e
w istence of the nation. During thes
is times the people forgot all about the
Vt past glories, and it was not until liz
20 that the oldest manuscript of the pOel
i. was discovered Then it was not CO.
is s'dered anything extraordinary, a
+. though two or three editions wei
r. printed
y II was during the dark days at tn
N beginning of the 10Th century that tn
if "Nibelunger Lied performed il
NJ greatest service to humanity. Whe
n. all Europe lay PROSTATE at the fe,
N of Napoleon, when Germany had bee
ar particularly Inundated by the defe;
w at Jena, then that nation turned
o. the glories of her former days, an
70 inspired by them, drew herself toget
Il. e, for a mighty effort to stay the c
w reer of that man who might hay
n. changed the history of the world.
II In the worlds literature the mi
~ eiungen Lied" holds an impOrtal
If place. 1t is one of the worlds gre
RI epics: it is one of the monuments
no the history of the German people, al
dc il is the only source of informatit
ut concerning the past of mighty rae