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Often appears with: the rise and fall of greatness · retreat to châlons · omens, portents, and signs · gundahar legend formation · fate, destiny, and necessity · etzel court as narrative centerpiece · conquest, plunder, and captives · burgundian kingdom in rhenish palatinate · battle formation · battle and tactics · attila’s omens and haruspices
Usually: narrative (1) · reflection (1) · confronting death (1) · the fall of the great (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
Attila lifts the siege approach near Orléans, retreats to the plains of Châlons, consults priests and haruspices, and arranges a battle formation that culminates in a fight on the Catalaunian Fields.
been planted in the diocese of Bayeux; the Burgundians were settled in Savoy; and the Breones were a warlike tribe of Rhaetians, to the east of the Lake of Constance.] On their approach the king of the Huns immediately raised the siege, and sounded a retreat to recall the foremost of his troops from the pillage of a city which they had already entered. 39 The valor of Attila was always guided by hi…
The author proposes the original tale may have blended human and mythic elements, then explains how fifth-century historical events—Burgundian defeats by Huns—shaped legends of the fall of the Nibelungs and Gundahar/Gunther.
in detail in the "Nibelungenlied". The dragon legend probably originated in the Cimbrian peninsula, where the "Beowulf" saga, in which the dragon fight plays such an important part, likewise arose. There thus stand sharply opposed to each other two theories, one seeing in the Siegfried saga a personification of natural forces, the other tracing it back to a purely human story of murder through greed. It may be, that…