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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]
Nissen was the third husband of Danish actress Gudrun Houlberg. In 1921 he portrayed the title role in the film Leaves from Satan's Book, his only film appearance. [1] In 1907 he was named a Kongelige Kammersangere. He committed suicide in 1926 in Copenhagen. [2] He is buried in the Holmen Cemetery there.
They offer Gudrun a large payment of gold as weregild for her husband's death, but she refuses. Grimhild threatens to curse her daughter to unimaginable torment if she will not obey. Intimidated, Gudrun agrees. At their wedding feast, Atli drinks to Gudrun, moved both by her beauty and by dreams of the dragon hoard.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
Gudrun's second husband and the father of Hamdir, Sorli, and Erp. He encourages the wedding of Svanhild and Ermanaric. [77] Ynglingatal, Guðrúnarhvöt , Hamðismál, Völsunga saga: Jörmunrekr See Ermanaric Jorund: Old Norse: Jǫrundr, Latin: Iorundus: May be based on a historic 5th c. Swedish king. [78]
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.
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One day, Brunhild and Gudrun are bathing at a river; Brunhild declares that she should not have to use the same water as Gudrun, as her husband is the more important man. Gudrun then reveals that Sigurd had crossed the flames and not Gunnar, and shows a ring that Sigurd had taken from Brunhild and given to her.