[1.] Walter of Aquitaine, who is returning from a battle in which he has put down a rebellion for King Etzel. Walter and Hildegund have lived since childhood as hostages at Etzel’s court.
[2.] Ekkehard conceives the Huns as a tribe of Pannonia.
[3.] The ‘rising’ of the men would be the signal for the women to retire that the drinking-bout might begin.
[4.] A rocky pass in the Vosges Mountains. On his westward flight Walter is attacked by the Burgundians, whom Ekkehard identifies with the Franks. He slays eleven famous champions in succession and then fights King Gunter and Hagen together.
[5.] 8 A.M.
[6.] Walter is the son of Alp-har (from Alp, elf, and hari, army).
[7.] The medieval canis molossus was a mastiff or bull-dog.
[8.] A pun on Hagen’s name, which means ‘thorn-bush.’
[9.] ‘Sigambrian’ or ‘Sicambrian’ was a name applied by the learned to the Franks.