ABSTRACT
Among these manuscripts is the poem" Gudrun," belonging to the twelfth or thirteenth century. It is evidently compiled from two or more much older lays, which are now lost, but which are alluded to in the "Nibelungenlied." The original poem was probably Norse, and not German, like the only existing manuscript, for there is an undoubted parallel to the story of the kidnapping of Hilde in the "Edda." In the "Edda," Hilde, the daughter of Hogni, escapes from home with her lover, Hedin, and is pursued by her irate father. He overtakes the fugitives 011 an island, where a bloody conflict takes place, in which many of the bravest warriors die. Every night, however, a sorceress recalls the dead to life to renew the strife and to exterminate one another afresh.
