The Fall of the Nibelungs Translated by Margaret Armour Contents Book I First Adventure Concerning the Nibelungs Second Adventure Concerning Siegfried Third Adventure How Siegfried Came to Worms Fourth Adventure How Siegfried Fought with the Saxons Fifth Adventure How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild Sixth Adventure How Gunther Went to Issland to Woo Brunhild Seventh Adventure How Gunther Won Brunhild Eighth Adventure How Siegfried Journeyed to the Nibelungs Ninth Adventure How Siegfried Was Sent to Worms Tenth Adventure How Brunhild Was Received at Worms Eleventh Adventure How Siegfried Brought his Wife Home Twelfth Adventure How Gunther Invited Siegfried to the Hightide Thirteenth Adventure How They Rode to the Hightide Fourteenth Adventure How the Queens Quarrelled Fifteenth Adventure How Siegfried Was Betrayed Sixteenth Adventure How Siegfried Was Slain Seventeenth Adventure How Siegfried Was Mourned and Buried Eighteenth Adventure How Siegmund Returned Home Nineteenth Adventure How the Nibelung Hoard Came to Worms Book II Twentieth Adventure How King Etzel Sent to Burgundy for Kriemhild Twenty-First Adventure How Kriemhild Journeyed to the Huns Twenty-Second Adventure How She Was Received Among the Huns Twenty-Third Adventure How Kriemhild Thought of Revenging Her Wrong Twenty-Fourth Adventure How Werbel and Schwemmel Brought the Message Twenty-Fifth Adventure How the Kings Journeyed to the Huns Twenty-Sixth Adventure How Dankwart Slew Gelfrat Twenty-Seventh Adventure How They Came to Bechlaren Twenty-Eighth Adventure How Kriemhild Received Hagen Twenty-Ninth Adventure How Hagen and Folker Sat Before Kriemhild’s Hall Thirtieth Adventure How Hagen and Folker Kept Watch Thirty-First Adventure How the Burgundians Went to Church Thirty-Second Adventure How Blœdel Fought With Dankwart in the Hall Thirty-Third Adventure How Dankwart Brought the News to His Masters Thirty-Fourth Adventure How They Threw Down the Dead Thirty-Fifth Adventure How Iring Was Slain Thirty-Sixth Adventure How the Queen Bad Them Burn Down the Hall Thirty-Seventh Adventure How Rudeger Was Slain Thirty-Eighth Adventure How Dietrich’s Knights Were All Slain Thirty-Ninth Adventure How Gunther, Hagen, and Kriemhild Were Slain Book I First Adventure Concerning the Nibelungs In old tales they tell us many wonders of heroes and of high courage, of glad feasting, of wine and of mourning; and herein ye shall read of the marvellous deeds and of the strife of brave men. There grew up in Burgundy a noble maiden, in no land was a fairer. Kriemhild was her name. Well favoured was the damsel, and by reason of her died many warriors. Doughty knights in plenty wooed her, as was meet, for of her body she was exceeding comely, and her virtues were an adornment to all women.