Weeping farewells

Often appears with: rank, class, and social order · luxury textiles · jeweled clothing · dress, ornament, and fashion

The Nibelungenlied secondary

G. H. Needler (George Henry Needler) · Composed as a German Middle High German epic and later revised in stages; this record concerns the original poem tradition (not the 1904 translation).
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In Kriemhild’s presence, Queen’s women and attendants prepare elaborate silk and jeweled attire, using materials from distant lands; the warriors receive their finished garments and leave Burgundy after farewells with weeping.

346 Then spake of Tronje Hagen / with noble courtliness: "Why wilt thou of thy mother / beg such services? Only let thy sister / hear our mind and mood: So shall for this our journey / her good service be bestowed." 347 Then sent he to his sister / that he her would see, And with him also Siegfried. / Ere that such might be, Herself had there the fair one / in rich apparel clad. Sooth to tell, the visit / but litt…