Mythology / siegfried-and-the-nibelungenlied
Facts about Siegfried and the Nibelungenlied
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Composed around 1200 CE, the Nibelungenlied is written in Middle High German and divided into two parts called Aventiuren.
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Kriemhild, Siegfried's wife in the Nibelungenlied, ultimately orchestrates a massacre to avenge her husband's murder, driving the poem's second half.
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Hagen of Tronje is the treacherous warrior who murders Siegfried by hurling a spear at the vulnerable spot on his back.
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In the Nibelungenlied, Siegfried is made nearly invulnerable by bathing in the blood of a dragon he slays, except for a single spot on his back.
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The Nibelungenlied, a Middle High German epic poem, draws on older Germanic and Norse heroic traditions surrounding the dragon-slayer Siegfried.