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Kriemhild

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Kriemhild: see Nibelungen Nibelungenlied (–lēt') [song of the Nibelungen] is a long Middle High German epic by a south German poet of the early 13th cent.
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Kriemhild

 or Gudrun

In the Nibelungenlied, the gentle princess courted by Siegfried. Her grief at Siegfried's death transforms her into a “she-devil”; she exacts revenge by marrying Attila the Hun and killing her brother (who ordered Siegfried's death). She herself is also killed. In Norse legend, as Gudrun, she appears in tales of revenge. Kriemhild's story may have originated in confusion over events in the life of the historical Attila.


Kriemhild
Burgundian princess’s beauty known throughout Europe. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied]


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