. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . place of its concealment should never be revealedas long as the king lived. So Kriemhilda caused herbrothers head to be severed from his body and takento Hagen, who still refused to tell where the hoardwas hidden. Kriemhildas wrath and vengeancebeing thus aggravated beyond bounds, she seized KRIEMHILDA8 REVENGE. 75 Siegfrieds sword Balmung and smote Hagens headfrom off its trunk. Alas! the Hun king sighing said, how does the matter standThat he, the boldest of all knights, should fall by womans hand?He who in
. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . place of its concealment should never be revealedas long as the king lived. So Kriemhilda caused herbrothers head to be severed from his body and takento Hagen, who still refused to tell where the hoardwas hidden. Kriemhildas wrath and vengeancebeing thus aggravated beyond bounds, she seized KRIEMHILDA8 REVENGE. 75 Siegfrieds sword Balmung and smote Hagens headfrom off its trunk. Alas! the Hun king sighing said, how does the matter standThat he, the boldest of all knights, should fall by womans hand?He who in onslaught was the first, the bravest that bore shield !Although he was mine enemy, I fain to sorrow yield. Then spake the ancient Hildebrand, She shall no gainer beThrough this same deed of deadly hate, whateer becomes of me !Thereon did Master Hildebrand run at the fair Kriemhild,And smote so with his keen-edged sword that he the Hun queen STORIES RELATED TO THE MYTHOF BRUNHILDA. I. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. In times past there lived a king and queen whosaid to each other every da}^ of their lives, Wouldthat we had a child ! and yet they had none. But ithappened once that when the queen was bathing,there came a frog out of the water, and he squattedon the ground and said to her, Thy wish shall befulfilled: before the year has gone by a daughter shallbe born to thee. And as the frog foretold, so it happened; and thequeen bore a daughter so beautiful that the kingcould not contain himself for joy, and he ordained agreat feast. Not only did he bid to it his relations,friends, and acquaintances, but also the wise women,that they might be kind and favorable to the were thirteen of them in his kingdom, but as * This story is taken fi-om Lucy Cranes translation from theGerman of Grimm. The pupils will readily perceive that it isgreatly modernized from the earlier story of Brunhild. 76 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. 11 he had only
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