CONTENTS

[Introduction]

[I. Of Kriemhild, and of her Dream]

[II. Of the Fostering and the Knighting of Siegfried]

[III. How Siegfried rode to the City of Worms]

[IV. How Siegfried warred against the Saxons]

[V. How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild]

[VI. How they voyaged on Love-quest to Isen-land]

[VII. How the Warrior-maid was won to be Gunther’s Bride]

[VIII. How Siegfried went to the Niblung Land for his Knights]

[IX. How Siegfried bare Tidings to the Royal City]

[X. Of the strange Bridal of Gunther and Brunhild]

[XI. How Siegfried and his Wife journeyed Home]

[XII. How Gunther bade Siegfried to a Festival]

[XIII. How they fared to the Feast-tide]

[XIV. How the Queens spake bitter Words each unto other]

[XV. How woven for Siegfried was the Net of Betrayal]

[XVI. How Siegfried was murdered]

[XVII. How Siegfried was mourned and buried]

[XVIII. How Kriemhild would not return to the Lowland with Siegmund]

[XIX. How the Hoard of the Niblungs came to Worms]

[XX. How Queen Kriemhild was wooed for the King of the Huns]

[XXI. Of Kriemhild’s journeying to the Land of the Huns]

[XXII. How King Etzel wedded Kriemhild]

[XXIII. How Kriemhild thought on Vengeance for her Wrongs]

[XXIV. How the Hun-king’s Minstrels bade the Burgundians to the Feast]

[XXV. How the Princes rode to the Land of the Huns]

[XXVI. How Foes fell on them as they journeyed by Night]

[XXVII. How they came to Bechlaren]

[XXVIII. How the Burgundians came to Etzel’s strong City]

[XXIX. How Hagen refused to rise up in presence of the Queen]

[XXX. How Hagen and Volker kept Watch while Men slept]

[XXXI. How they bore them at Mass and Tourney]

[XXXII. Of the Slaughter of the Squires and the Slaying of the Slayer]

[XXXIII. How the Fight began in Etzel’s Hall]

[XXXIV. How they cast forth the dead]

[XXXV. How Iring fought and died]

[XXXVI. How the Queen bade set fire to the Hall]

[XXXVII. How the Margrave Rüdiger was slain]

[XXXVIII. How Dietrich’s Men were all slain]

[XXXIX. How Gunther, Hagen, and Kriemhild were slain]

[Footnotes]