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Gudrun was married at the wish of her kinsmen to Atli the Hun, said to be Brynhild's brother.
The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday
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_Brynhild's Hellride_, a continuation of the preceding.
The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday
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Gudrun, and the one is the complement of the other: the one in the tone of irony, Gudrun's comment on the death of Kjartan, a repetition of Brynhild's phrase on the death of Sigurd; [59] the other Gudrun's confession to her son at the end of the whole matter.
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Brynhild's supernatural origin is clearly shown here, and also in the prose in _Sigrdrifumal.
The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday
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The ballad has the seed of tragedy in it, but in the lay the seed has sprung up in the dramatic eloquence of Brynhild's utterances before her death.
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Brynhild's character is curiously recognised by a sort of informal chorus.
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After Brynhild's death Gudrun in her sorrow flees to the court of King
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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With this answer they proceed to Brynhild's castle, where Gunnar is unable to pierce the flames, even when seated on Sigurd's steed.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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Taking with him Sigurd and a few others, Gunnar visits first Brynhild's father "Budli", and then her brother-in-law "Heimir", from both of whom he learns that she is free to choose whom she will, but that she will marry no one who has not ridden through the wall of flame.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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After the gap in the manuscript there are various poems of Brynhild and Gudrun, in which different views of the story are taken, and in all of them the tragic contradiction is extreme: in Brynhild's vengeance on Sigurd, in Gudrun's lament for her husband slain by her brothers, and in the later fortunes of Gudrun.
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