. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . ns characters knownin the history of tlie fifth century is evidence that itdoes not belong in its present poetic form to anyearlier date. It is probable that it belongs to thesixth century. The historic personages in it areAttila, or Etzel; Helka, or Erca, his wife; andDietrich. In the year 453, says Auber Forestier in herEchoes froiii Mist-Land, Attila, King of the Iluns,called the Scourge of God, died suddenly on thenight of his marriage with the fair Ildiko, the Ostro-goths being shortly thereafter freed fr
. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . ns characters knownin the history of tlie fifth century is evidence that itdoes not belong in its present poetic form to anyearlier date. It is probable that it belongs to thesixth century. The historic personages in it areAttila, or Etzel; Helka, or Erca, his wife; andDietrich. In the year 453, says Auber Forestier in herEchoes froiii Mist-Land, Attila, King of the Iluns,called the Scourge of God, died suddenly on thenight of his marriage with the fair Ildiko, the Ostro-goths being shortly thereafter freed from the Hunnishyoke. These events made a deep impression on thepeople of South Germany, and busy tradition, everon the alert for poetic justice, attributing Attilasdeath to his bride, assumed the murderous deed tohave been wrought by her to avenge the destructionof the Burgundians, although it was historicallyuntrue that thev fell through Attila. Then following INTRODUCTION. 9 its tendency to combine mjiliic and real personagesand facts, traditions blended these new materials with. [lTMi}(f{H|tIipl!i||l|l|Jll» I previonsly existing stories, and thus wascreated the character of King Etzel, whowill be seen to play a comparativelytame part, merely the fruits of his pastdeeds of greatness being visible, Die-trich of Bern is identified with Theodoric the Great. 10 INTRODUCTION. The story of Siegfried is considered pui-e myth, little room being left for doubt tluit it is the storyof the Greek Theseus in another dress; u repetitionof that great drama of the Greek mythology whichbegins with the loss of the golden fleece, and endswith the return of Herakles. In the second chap-ter is introduced a part of Tennysons poem ThePay-dream, that the continuity of the story may notbe broken as seems to be the case in Lachmansversion. Otherwise tlie translation by JonathanBirch from Lachmans comjjilation has been followed,keeping as close to the original text and style aspossible, paraphrasing ex
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