. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . ar we gloriously have sped, said Siegfried toBrunhild. Youll no more show such haughtiness, or be so way-ward-willed !For you have found there lives who can oermaster strength of , noble lady, please you go with us unto the Rhine. 38 THE STORY OF THE GERMAN ILIAD. CHAPTER V. THE MARRIAGE OF GUNTHER WITH BRUNHILDA,AND SIEGFRIED WITH KRIEMHILDA. HE king sat at the festive:^i^ board beside the queen!(^ Brunhild, ^^ AVho neer had felt suchC>-tLi inward pang as whenshe saw KriemhildSeated by Siegefried
. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . ar we gloriously have sped, said Siegfried toBrunhild. Youll no more show such haughtiness, or be so way-ward-willed !For you have found there lives who can oermaster strength of , noble lady, please you go with us unto the Rhine. 38 THE STORY OF THE GERMAN ILIAD. CHAPTER V. THE MARRIAGE OF GUNTHER WITH BRUNHILDA,AND SIEGFRIED WITH KRIEMHILDA. HE king sat at the festive:^i^ board beside the queen!(^ Brunhild, ^^ AVho neer had felt suchC>-tLi inward pang as whenshe saw KriemhildSeated by Siegefried thebold: to weep the maidbegan,And oer her splendid dam-ask cheek the burningteardrop ran. To her the kingturned with anxiouslook, asking the causeof her tears; when Brunhilda replied that it troubledher to know that the kings sister was so unmeetlymatched to a mere liegeman. Gunther beggedher to be silent on the question, since he wouldin the future explain to her how Kriemhilda hadmade an honorable marriage. But the frame ofBrunhildas mind was such that it needed only a. MARRIAGES OF OUNTHER AND SIEGFRIED. 39 slight provocation to arouse her temper, and whenthey were come to their nuptial chamber she snatchedan enchanted girdle from her waist and bound KingGunthers hands and feet and bore him to a giantnail, where she hung him gainst the wall, forbiddinghim to utter any tender words lest her slumbers bedisturbed. At dawn he began to supplicate for hisfreedom, and she loosed the cord but forebore theleast display of affection. The king felt sick at heartas he met the courtiers in their robes of state thatday, and he meditated on his un-happy lot. Conformably with a customwidely known, King Gunther andBrunhilda agreedto visit the minster ^choir, where holymass was sung. Sieg-fried and Kriem-hilda accompaniedthem, the regal fourwearing diadems ofstate. Esquires wereduly dubbed thatday, receiving swords ^and knightly spursin honor of thequeen; and therewas great jubilating throug
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