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  • During the wedding feast, Siegfried reminded Günther of his promise, and the king, calling Kriemhild to him, affianced the two in the presence of the company.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • And a pleasant meadow, not far from the town, is still called Kriemhild's

    The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883

  • "Kriemhild," answered Hagen, "no one shall suffer blame, -- neither Siegfried nor yourself.

    The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883

  • By the end of the evening, Kriemhild, superbly played by Maren Eggert, surveys the ruins of her life and her kingdom with dispassion, like a camera recording the flatness of no-man's land in World War I.

    Making Quick Work of an Epic 2010

  • Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 967 – 68, 970. back

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • The Nibelungenlied was one of the sources of the Ring, and in it the heroine Kriemhild marries Attila after the murder of her husband Siegfried by her brother's vassal Hagen.

    Attila and the Ring Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • The Nibelungenlied was one of the sources of the Ring, and in it the heroine Kriemhild marries Attila after the murder of her husband Siegfried by her brother's vassal Hagen.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • Sworn to Brunhild but separated from her, Eric, now Siegfried, journeys to the kingdom of Burgund, where his broad shoulders catch the eye of Princess Kriemhild (Alicia Witt).

    Not bad: not bad at all | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

  • As Brunhild and Kriemhild are here united in one person, there is no need of a wooing for the king, nor of vengeance on the part of Brunhild, accordingly the old motive of greed (here envy) reappears.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • That Kriemhild kissed only Giselher, who was innocent of

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

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