The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . vealing the hidden wealth. The iron warrior declares that first he must beassured of Gunthers death; but when his kings severed head is shown him, helaughs, saying that the hoard is now safe indeed. Kriemhild slays him in herrage, and thus he passes into the true Nibelung world of darkness, defiant andunyielding. An aged chief who stands near stabs Kriemhi
The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . vealing the hidden wealth. The iron warrior declares that first he must beassured of Gunthers death; but when his kings severed head is shown him, helaughs, saying that the hoard is now safe indeed. Kriemhild slays him in herrage, and thus he passes into the true Nibelung world of darkness, defiant andunyielding. An aged chief who stands near stabs Kriemhild because of allthe slaughter she has caused. So ends the poem, with the Nibelung curse ac-complished upon all the Burgundians, and the treasure lost forever in theRhine. There are other tales of Dietrich, also representing him as the friend ofAttila, sometimes as a wandering fugitive at Attilas court. This is, perhaps,a confusion of Theodoric the Great with his uncles, Ostrogoth chiefs of theprevious generation, who really were among the Ostrogoth allies of AttilaDietrichs friendship for the Burgundians may be confounded with the otherTheodoric, the Visigoth king, who fell as did Gunthers ten thousand Burgun-dians, fighting
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