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Guðrúnarkviða I, II and III are three different heroic poems in the Poetic Edda with the same protagonist, Gudrun. In Guðrúnarkviða I, Gudrun finds her dead husband Sigurd. She cries and laments her husband with beautiful imagery. In Guðrúnarkviða II, she recapitulates her life in a monologue.
Gudrun now accuses Gunnar of the murder and denies him any right to Sigurd's treasure. She warns that she will avenge her husband. [79] It is implied that if Gudrun had been unable to weep, she may have died. [80] The poem focuses entirely on Gudrun's grief at the death of Sigurd, omitting almost all details surrounding his death. [81]
Plotting to kill his brothers-in-law, Atli dispatches messengers to Gunnarr and Högni, the sons of Gjúki, with an invitation to his hall. [2] Guðrún daughter of Gjúki, Atli's wife, learns about the plot [3] and sends a runic message to her brothers but the runes are corrupted by one of the messengers, Vingi. [4]
Kudrun (sometimes known as the Gudrunlied or Gudrun), is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic. The poem was likely composed in either Austria or Bavaria around 1250. The poem was likely composed in either Austria or Bavaria around 1250.
After her second husband's death she was courted by the two foster-brothers Kjartan Óláfsson and Bolli Þorleiksson. Guðrún preferred Kjartan, but she gave herself to Bolli, because of a false rumour that Kjartan was engaged to Ingibjörg, the sister of King Óláfr Tryggvason. The two foster-brothers engaged in hostilities which ended with ...
Illustration by Johann Heinrich Füssli.. Guðrúnarkviða I or the First Lay of Guðrún is simply called Guðrúnarkviða in Codex Regius, where it is found together with the other heroic poems of the Poetic Edda.
In the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson says that Gjúki was the father of sons Gunnar and Hogni and a daughter Gudrun. Gotthorm (slayer of Sigurd) is his stepson from his wife Grimhild's previous marriage. The Prose Edda mentions Gudny, a second daughter of Gjúki and Grimhild. In the Gudrunarkvida, this second daughter is named Gullrond.
For "Grimhild", see Gudrun/Kriemhild. Uote from a Low German *Ōda, from *ot-("wealth"), thus "one with wealth" [135] Grimhild/Ute is the mother of the Burgundian kings. In the Norse tradition, she is the mother of Gunnar, Gudrun, Gutthorm 1, and Hagen/Högni 1. In the German tradition, she is the mother of the brothers Gunnar, Giselher, Gernot ...