([St. XX.]) I have here, without intending it, stumbled on an interior ryhme, sounded confounded. Still I can assure Professor Lachmann that the stanza is genuine.
THIRTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE
([St. VI.]) Here begins Lachmann's Twentieth Lay.
([St. IX.]) Here they are described as coming ûz dem hûse, which seems to contradict Kriemhild's exhortation at St. XX, not to let the Burgundians come für den sal. Perhaps they here merely come out of the hall into a vestibule at the top of the staircase, so as to speak with Etzel and Kriemhild, but not into the open air. So at St. V, Thirty-ninth Adventure, Gunther and Hagan are said to be outside the house, but at St. XXV, same Adventure, Hagan rushes down from the staircase to attack Dietrich. From St. XXVI, Thirty-sixth Adventure, the staircase seems to have been of no great length.
THIRTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE
([St. XVII.]) Compare stanzas CXV, CXVI, Twentieth Adventure.
([St. LIX.]) It is odd, that the hall, which must have been the principal eating-hall in the castle, is here called Kriemhild's. Von der Hagen thinks Kriemhild had appropriated it by having attempted to set it on fire, but arson is an odd kind of title. He supposes, too, it may be the hall mentioned at St. IV, Twenty-ninth Adventure; yet it seems strange that Etzel should have received his guests anywhere but in his own hall.
([St. XCI.]) This stanza, as Professor Lachmann justly observes, cannot belong to Hagan, but is appropriate to Giselher, who is mentioned immediately after. Still there is an awkwardness here.
THIRTY-EIGHTH ADVENTURE
([St. II.]) The king himself has come to the feast, has made one of the party, that is, has been slaughtered with the rest. See Lachmann's note (St. 2173 L.).