Kudrun
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Kudrun, is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic. The poem was likely composed in either Austria or Bavaria around 1250. It tells the story of three generations of the ruling house of Hetelings
First page of Kudrun. Ambraser Heldenbuch, Austrian National Library Cod. ser. nova 2663 fol. 140t.
"Kudrun is led away imprisoned" (1885) by Johannes Gehrts.
Hildr attempts to mediate on the picture stone Smiss (I)
Kudrun washes clothes at the seashore. From Die Gartenlaube (1899)
Hjaðningavíg
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Hjaðningavíg, the legend of Heðinn and Hǫgni or the Saga of Hild is a Germanic heroic legend about a never-ending battle which is documented in Sörla þáttr, Ragnarsdrápa, Gesta Danorum, Skíðaríma and
Kudrun
…story of Kudrun is very likely the invention of the poet, the story of her parents has its origins in a common Germanic tale known in Scandinavia as the Hjaðningavíg: it tells how Kudrun's mother, Hilde, eloped with her father, Hetel, against the will of Hilde's father, Hagen. In Kudrun, this originally tragic tale…
A detail from the Stora Hammars I stone, an image stone on Gotland
Text and illustration from Bodley 614