THIRTY-SECOND ADVENTURE: How Bloedel was Slain.
THIRTY-THIRD ADVENTURE: How the Burgundians Fought with the Huns.
THIRTY-FOURTH ADVENTURE: How They Cast Out the Dead.
THIRTY-FIFTH ADVENTURE: How Iring was Slain.
THIRTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE: How the Queen Bade Set Fire to the Hall.
THIRTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE: How the Margrave Ruediger was Slain.
THIRTY-EIGHTH ADVENTURE: How All Sir Dietrich's Knights were Slain.
THIRTY-NINTH ADVENTURE: How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were Slain.

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THE NIBELUNGENLIED

I. THE NIBELUNGEN SAGA

1. Origin of the Saga

All the Aryan peoples have had their heroic age, the achievements of
which form the basis of later saga. For the Germans this was the period
of the Migrations, as it is called, in round numbers the two hundred
years from 400 to 600, at the close of which we find them settled in
those regions which they have, generally speaking, occupied ever since.
During these two centuries kaleidoscopic changes had been taking place in
the position of the various Germanic tribes. Impelled partly by a native
love of wandering, partly by the pressure of hostile peoples of other
race, they moved with astonishing rapidity hither and thither over the
face of Europe, generally in conflict with one another or buffeted by the
Romans in the west and south, and by the Huns in the east. In this stern
struggle for existence and search for a permanent place of settlement
some of them even perished utterly; amid the changing fortunes of all of