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Often appears with: the rise and fall of greatness · gundahar legend formation · fate, destiny, and necessity · conquest, plunder, and captives · catalaunian fields · burgundian kingdom in rhenish palatinate
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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…