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    Þiðreks saga (redirect from Þiðrekssaga)
    Þiðreks saga af Bern ('the saga of Þiðrekr of Bern', sometimes Thidrekssaga or Thidreks saga in English) is an Old Norse saga that collects almost all...
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    Another important source for legends about Dietrich is the Old Norse Thidrekssaga, which was written using German sources. In addition to the legends detailing...
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    and to have known the Thidrekssaga (c. 1250), a translation of continental Germanic traditions into Old Norse (see § Þiðrekssaga). Therefore, the Völsunga...
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    He appears as Níðuðr in the Old Norse Völundarkviða, as Niðung in the Þiðrekssaga, and as Niðhad in the Anglo-Saxon poems Deor and Waldere. The legend...
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    13th centuries. Major works of that period include Historia Norwegiæ, Þiðrekssaga and Konungs skuggsjá. Little Norwegian literature came out of the period...
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    centuries, Siegfried became heavily associated with German nationalism. The Thidrekssaga finishes its tale of Sigurd by saying: [E]veryone said that no man now...
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    and to have known the Thidrekssaga (c. 1250), a translation of continental Germanic traditions into Old Norse (see Þiðrekssaga above). Therefore the Völsunga...
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  • increasingly presented as traitors; it is as traitors that they appear in the Þiðrekssaga. In the Middle High German Dietrich cycle, he is the son of a Madelger...
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    the accusation that Kriemhild is a vâlandinne (fiend). Although the Þiðrekssaga (c. 1250) is written in Old Norse, the majority of the material is translated...
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    go unpunished!" Palnatoki later kills the king. In the 13th-century Þiðrekssaga, chapter 128, Egill, brother of Völund, is commanded by King Nidung to...
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    Níðuðr/Niðhad/Niðung who appears in Germanic legends, such as Deor, Völundarkviða and Þiðrekssaga. Initially, she appears to have been a tragic victim of Wayland the smith's...
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    particular fame in his duel with Langben Rese/Risker (the giant Etgeir in the Þiðrekssaga). During the Middle Ages, he became the son of Wayland the Smith and...
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    Edward R. Hayes, New York, Garland, 1988. Von der Hagen's, summary of Thidrekssaga chapters 1-79, chapter-numbering of the Membrame-manuscript, consistency...
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  • Eckenlied (c. 1230). The Old Norse compendium of German legends known as the Thidrekssaga (c. 1250). Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold (1869). The name Fasolt...
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    (Attila-city) being identified with Esztergom or Buda. The Old Norse Thidrekssaga, however, which is based on North German sources, locates Hunaland in...
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    Volsunga Saga. However, it is also seen in other legends, such as the Thidrekssaga in which it is wielded by Hildebrand. Depending on the story and source...
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    Hagano's exact familial relation to Guntharius is not given. The Old Norse Þiðrekssaga is a medieval translation of German legendary material into Norwegian...
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    "Hildebrand's Death" it is related that he killed his son. The Old Norse Thidrekssaga and the Jüngeres Hildebrandslied both contain versions in which Hildebrand...
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    existed in the field of literature and poetry, for example the Norwegian Thidrekssaga (13th century) is based, according to its own information, on "Low German"...
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    Hjörvarðssonar. The kingdom Sváfaland also appears in this poem and in the Þiðrekssaga. Swabia Dukes of Swabia family tree Germanic personal names in Galicia...
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    and Göthaland (i.e. Götaland). The 15th-century Swedish version of the Þiðrekssaga says that Vilkinaland was formerly a name for Sweden (Swerige) and Götaland:...
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    back the magic ring and warns Ortnit not to go on his quest. In the Thidrekssaga, Alfrikr makes the swords Eckisax and Nagelringr, giving this last sword...
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    head appears among other Germanic nations, as the story of Egil in the Þiðrekssaga, William of Cloudesley in an English ballad, Hemming Wolf in Holstein...
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    Burgundians' supplies and Hagen's killing of prince Ortlieb. The Old Norse Thidrekssaga, which is based on German sources, contains only the second element,...
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    poet is clearly referring to the legends about Theoderic the Great. The Þiðrekssaga tells that the warrior Heime (Háma in Old English) takes sides against...
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  • earliest mention occurs in the Old English poem Widsith. According to the Þiðrekssaga, he was born between king Wilkinus and a serpent-legged mermaid named...
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    Rhinegold). Except for the change in name, probably inspired by the Þiðrekssaga, the story of Reginn, Sigurð, and Fáfnir in Siegfried follows closely...
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    saga. Siegfried contains elements from the Eddur, the Völsunga saga and Thidrekssaga. The final Götterdämmerung draws from the 12th-century German poem, the...
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  • Velents þáttr smiðs is the name given to the part of the Þiðrekssaga af Bern saga that deals with Wayland the Smith (Velent, Wieland, Völundr). Velent...
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    Paderborn. Bad Sassendorf Ense Lippetal Möhnesee Werl Welver The Norwegian Þiðrekssaga from the 13th century, a series of tales about the Gothic King Theoderic...
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