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Nibelungenlied

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Nibelungenlied	comment	The Nibelungenlied, translated literally as "The Song of the Nibelungs", is an epic poem in two parts, telling the story of Siegfried, his murder by the Burgundians, and the revenge taken by his widow Kriemhild. Dating back to the early 13th century, its authorship is unknown, but it is thought to have been written by an Austrian author from between Passau and Vienna for recitation in the Austrian court. The Nibelungenlied is the earliest complete telling of the legend, though other versions of the story exist, including the Norse Völsunga saga and passages in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, which, though written down later, are thought to preserve earlier elements of the story that had become obscured in the mediævalized German poem. Brief allusions to the Siegfried story also exist in much earlier works, such as Waltharius and Beowulf.Technically, the poem is written in four line roughly hexameter stanzas, with strong pauses in the middle of each line, rhyming AABB, and with the final line of each stanza usually lengthened by an extra foot. The language of the poem is Middle High German, i.e., the language spoken in what is now southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from about the 11th to the 14th centuries. Modern Germans will be able to guess roughly what a sentence is about, but without training they won't be able to make out details, let alone pronounce it correctly, much as with modern English-speakers in regard to Chaucer (though the Nibelungenlied is some two hundred years more removed from the modern language even than the [[Canterbury Tales]]). Thus:The first section details the life, exploits, and death of the hero Siegfried (MHG “Sîfrit”), son of King Siegmund and Queen Sieglinde of Xanten, who achieves near-invincibility by bathing in the blood of a freshly-slain dragon, but retains a point of weakness in a place which the blood fails to cover, in this case the shoulder, part of which remains covered by a linden leaf during his gory baptism.Siegfried marries Kriemhild (Chriemhilt), the sister of the Burgundian king Gunther of Worms, whom he assists in his ritual courting of the Icelandic queen Brunhild (Prunhilt). Siegfried's assistance is to use his supernatural strength (also gained through his earlier proximity to dragon blood) to complete the challenges in an Invisibility Cloak while Gunther mimes the same actions to give the illusion that he is accomplishing these tasks.The political relationship of the two men, though fortified by Siegfried's services and his marriage to Kriemhild, is soured when an argument between Brunhild and Kriemhild reveals the truth about the secret arrangement and the security of the state is threatened. Gunther's solution to this comes about through his scheming vassal Hagen, who, with Gunther, plots the assassination of the hero.The second part of the poem tells of how Kriemhild, now bereft not only of her husband but also her status and fortune (Hagen steals the hoard Siegfried had won from Schilbung and Nibelung, [the sons of King Nibelung] and deposits it in the Rhine to prevent her from raising an avenging army), she sets about to avenge her husband's death. Her first action to this end is the political marriage to King Etzel (Attila the Hun), a move which helps to rebuild her status but is regarded as an ideological dishonour, her new husband being a pagan. Later, her brother and his followers are invited to Etzel's kingdom in order to compete in the various courtly traditions of feasting and jousting, yet it is revealed to be a guise for an assassination for Gunther and Hagen. Nevertheless, they manage to abuse Etzel's hospitality with impunity until they go too far by slaying his child, and there ensues an enormous battle inside the hall, which is set alight by Kriemhild in the process. Gunther, Hagen, and their followers manage to defend themselves against insurmountable odds, until they are at last overcome by the Ostrogothic King Dietrich (Theodoric the Goth), who happens to be present at the festivities. He brings Hagen bound to Kriemhild, who personally strikes him dead — to the disgust of Dietrich's old companion-in-arms, Hildebrand, who slays her for striking down an unarmed man. Thus her bloody revenge is achieved at the cost of her own destruction.Judging by the number of manuscripts, the poem was hugely popular in mediæval Germany. After The Renaissance, however, it lost favour and sank from view — to the point that, when the poem was rediscovered and published in a critical edition by Christoph Heinrich Müller, Frederick the Great, to whom Müller had dedicated it, famously remarked that the poem was "not worth a shot of powder" and that he wouldn't have such trash in his library. Nevertheless, the poem regained its stature in the Romantic era, and it is still regarded by many as Germany's national epic.The Nibelungenlied is one of the sources for Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, though Wagner's work draws much more from Scandinavian sources; for instance, Wagner practically abandons the entire second half of the poem, and substantially ignores Kriemhild.The epic has had a number of film adaptations, perhaps most notably Fritz Lang's two part, four and a half hour epic, Die Nibelungen (1924), starring Paul Richter as Siegfried and Margarete Schön as Kriemhild, which was highly faithful to the original epic and deliberately avoided Wagner's famous version. There's also the surprisingly popular if slightly cheesy 1966 remake directed by Harald Reinl and starring Olympic hammer-thrower Uwe Beyer as Siegfried; and the 2004 TV film Curse of the Ring (AKA Ring of the Nibelungs; Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King; The Nibelungs — The Curse of the Dragon; and The Sword of Xanten), directed by Uli Edel and starring Benno Fürmann as Siegfried.The last named takes considerable liberties with the plot in order to emphasise a more consciously pagan agenda, which some may consider a reversal of what the Nibelungenlied represented to its own original material. On the other hand, the Lied's (possibly clerical) author himself had imposed Christianity rather awkwardly on a decidedly paganish story — as none other than Goethe once remarked, the Nibelung heroes seem to go to church largely in order to get into another fight.
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Nibelungenlied / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Just three men (Etzel, Dietrich von Bern, Hildebrand) survive.
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Nibelungenlied / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
Nibelungenlied / int_14c791fb	comment	Since Hagen could easily have picked up a shield belonging to the many corpses lying around the hall, this has been interpreted as Hagen providing a way out of his Conflicting Loyalty dilemma. As Etzel's vassal, Rüdiger had to fight against the Burgundians, yet he had also sworn friendship to them when his daughter was betrothed to Gunther's brother Giselher, which entailed an obligation to aid them in a fight - which he now could fulfil by giving Hagen his shield.
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Nibelungenlied / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Nibelungenlied / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Kriemhild finds out Hagen killed Siegfried through cruentation, an old belief that the body of the victim would spontaneously bleed in the presence of the murderer.
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Nibelungenlied / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Nibelungenlied / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Wolfhart and Giselher, as well as Rüdiger and Gernot.
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Nibelungenlied / int_1e6ca414	type	Burning the Ships
Nibelungenlied / int_1e6ca414	comment	Burning the Ships: After ferrying the entire Burgundian army across the Danube, Hagen hacks the boat to pieces and casts them into the river. Asked why he did that, he replies they will not need the boat again, and that he wishes any deserters who might turn back should drown in the river. A little later he reveals that three river-women have already predicted that they will all die in Hunland.
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Nibelungenlied / int_1f7c89f6	type	Nigh-Invulnerability
Nibelungenlied / int_1f7c89f6	comment	Nigh-Invulnerability: Siegfried's skin became impenetrable when he bathed in the blood of the dragon — except for the spot on his shoulder.
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Nibelungenlied / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: In a manner common to many works of mediæval art and literature, characters are depicted in garb of the date of the manuscript, like the late Burgundian (ca. 1480-1490) costumes of the page illustration, rather than the 5th century costume appropriated to the historical King Gunthahari. People in The Middle Ages had an entirely different sense of historical accuracy. Similarly, the characters that seem to correspond to historical figures (Etzel being Attila the Hun, Dietrich von Bern being Theodoric the Great, the latter being born a year after the former's death) do not share any conceivable time-frame.
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Nibelungenlied / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
Nibelungenlied / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: Kriemhild after Siegfried's murder.
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Nibelungenlied / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Nibelungenlied / int_2ad2a2c8	comment	Diagonal Cut: Hildebrand does this to Kriemhild in certain late MSS. of the poem.
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Nibelungenlied / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
Nibelungenlied / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: The final stage of Siegried's winning of Brunhild for Gunther. Gunther's, Hagen's, and Kriemhild's suspicions about whether he went all the way or not lead to the succession of killings that make up the rest of the plot.
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Nibelungenlied / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Nibelungenlied / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Hagen kills a grumpy old ferryman merely to get his boat. Though Hagen personally may interpret it as Shoot the Dog. Then, he tries to murder Gunther's chaplain out of spite, because the chaplain was foretold to be the only Burgundian to survive the trip to the Hunland. Later, he kills Etzel and Kriemhild's son in front of them, after Hun knights had attacked Burgundian squires on Kriemhild's orders. Hagen has a thing for this trope.
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Nibelungenlied / int_3d1fbeb3	type	Virgin Power
Nibelungenlied / int_3d1fbeb3	comment	Virgin Power: Queen Brunhild has superhuman strength, but only so long as she stays a virgin.
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Nibelungenlied / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Nibelungenlied / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Hagen has no qualms to decapitate Kriemhild's and Etzel's son, the six-year-old Ortlieb.
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Nibelungenlied / int_4830326a	type	Give Me a Sword
Nibelungenlied / int_4830326a	comment	Give Me a Sword: An interesting variant: Hagen faces the heroic Rüdiger von Bechlarn, to whom he had previously sworn friendship . Hagen requests a shield, as his is broken, and Rüdiger offers his. Since Hagen could easily have picked up a shield belonging to the many corpses lying around the hall, this has been interpreted as Hagen providing a way out of his Conflicting Loyalty dilemma. As Etzel's vassal, Rüdiger had to fight against the Burgundians, yet he had also sworn friendship to them when his daughter was betrothed to Gunther's brother Giselher, which entailed an obligation to aid them in a fight - which he now could fulfil by giving Hagen his shield.
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Nibelungenlied / int_4866ff50	type	Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product
Nibelungenlied / int_4866ff50	comment	Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: The hero Siegfried becomes invulnerable by bathing in a dragon's blood.
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Nibelungenlied / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Nibelungenlied / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Kriemhild's Norse counterpart Gudrun from the Völsunga saga survived the ordeal to get broken even more, thus resulting in two more rampages before she finally dies.
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Nibelungenlied / int_4d396c3e	type	Last Villain Stand
Nibelungenlied / int_4d396c3e	comment	Last Villain Stand: The last stand of the Nibelungs in Etzel's burning hall.
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Nibelungenlied / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Nibelungenlied / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Dietrich and Hildebrand, both of whom are the main figures of their own eponymous epics.
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Nibelungenlied / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Nibelungenlied / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Observed more in breach than anything else. The expectation of it is important, however, as it explains many of the characters' reactions, such as on the one hand certain characters' reluctance to oppose guests even after they start causing mayhem, and on the other hand some characters' extreme reactions to Kriemhild's revenge plot. Hagen murders Siegfried while he's visiting Worms for a feast. Kriemhild summons the Burgundians to a feast to kill them all. Rüdeger very nearly breaks his vow to serve Kriemhild, because he had brought the Burgundians to Etzel's castle under his protection, and turning against them in this situation was extremely shameful for him. Earlier in the story, during the time Gunther, Siegfried, Hagen and Dankwart spend in Iceland while Gunther was proposing to Brunhild, they feared she might have them killed, but after Siegfried summons the Nibelungs' knights, no one dares threaten them.
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Nibelungenlied / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Nibelungenlied / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: An unusual example - everyone (except perhaps Siegfried) does either this or a Face–Heel Turn, as the first half of the epic is strongly sympathetic to Siegfried and Kriemhild, while the finale lionizes the Burgundians to such an extent that they appear heroic. Similarly Kriemhild goes from sympathetic victim of her family to blood crazed villainess.
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Nibelungenlied / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Nibelungenlied / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Dietrich's vengeful rampage which terminates Gunther and Hagen's valiant perseverance is preceded by this trope. Previously reluctant to enter battle, he learns that several family members and also countless retainers of his have been slain and sheds a great many before setting about to avenge their deaths.
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Nibelungenlied / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
Nibelungenlied / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: Volker the Minstrel is so named because of his use of a sword that doubles as a violin bow.
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Nibelungenlied / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
Nibelungenlied / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: The Tarnkappe (aptly translatable as "camouflage cape") that Siegfried takes from the dwarf Alberich and uses to defeat Brunhild. Its whereabouts after the death of Siegfried are unknown.
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Nibelungenlied / int_68a77024	type	Untranslated Title
Nibelungenlied / int_68a77024	comment	Untranslated Title: The poem has no title in the manuscripts. The modern title is drawn from the last line of the poem, which in the earliest surviving manuscripts reads, Daz ist der Nibelunge liet — "That is the song of the Nibelungs." However, other manuscripts, though not so old themselves, are believed to preserve an older, more correct reading, Diz ist der Nibelunge not — so the correct title should perhaps be, The Doom of the Nibelungs.
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Nibelungenlied / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Nibelungenlied / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: As the original versions of the stories have been lost and had to be speculatively reconstructed by scholars from the evidence of the various German and Scandinavian versions, it is hard to tell, but it is quite clear that the Nibelungenlied is an amalgam of some quite different stories, and it is a matter of conjecture to decide when the welding of the elements occurred and which ones are to be attributed to the author of the Nibelungenlied. The story of the dragonslayer called Siegfried or Sigurd accounts for the first half of the main plot, and the originally unrelated story of the death of the Burgundian kings at the hands of the Huns and their king Atli (Attila) for the second. The welding necessitated some changes; thus, in the Scandinavian epics that contain just the Atli saga, the sister of Gunther, who is married to Atli, kills her husband to avenge her brothers. In the Nibelungenlied, Kriemhild kills her brother using the army of her second husband Etzel (Attila) to avenge the murder of her first husband Siegfried. A canon welding that does seem to be the idea of the writer of the Nibelungenlied is the inclusion of Dietrich and his knights in the finale, which fuses the Nibelungen story to the cycle of epics about Dietrich of Bern (Theoderic the Great). In that cycle Attila was presented essentially as a sympathetic character and generous host, not the kind of treacherous and cold-blooded killer as in the Atli sagas.
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Nibelungenlied / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Nibelungenlied / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Some mermaids living in the Danube tell Hagen that only the chaplain accompanying the Burgundians will return home, so when Hagen ferries the Burgundian army across the Danube, he throws the chaplain overboard to drown to thwart the prophecy. However, the chaplain can swim and makes it back to the shore, thus assuring Hagen that the prophecy was right and that they are all doomed.
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Nibelungenlied / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Nibelungenlied / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: No single character is either truly good nor motivated by evil; the drama of the epic concerns the moral conflicts of each character attempting to fulfill their duties. Of course, plenty of their acts are unnecessarily malicious, motivated by vengeance, plain dishonest, or otherwise inviting violence.
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Nibelungenlied / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Nibelungenlied / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The mermaids who predict to Hagen the incoming slaughter. In the original version, Hagen kills them out of anger. Brunhild is last mentioned when Gunther leaves Worm to go to Etzel. In the Norse version, she commits suicide, but the German poet knew that would have been too shocking for his audience.
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Nibelungenlied / int_790b1e6	type	Nasty Party
Nibelungenlied / int_790b1e6	comment	Nasty Party: What Etzel's shindig turns into, thanks to the inveterate hatred of Kriemhild and Hagen.
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Nibelungenlied / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Nibelungenlied / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: In illustrations and movies, Hagen will almost invariably be dressed in an all-black outfit, including black armor, a black cape and (very often) a ridiculous winged helmet, all of which he will hardly ever take off. This appearance, worthy of a cartoon villain, seems to have originated with illustrators of the 19th century and has little basis in the original text.
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Nibelungenlied / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Nibelungenlied / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: By the beginning of the first part, Kriemhild is a tender and meek Princess Classic. By the end of the second part, she is a merciless angel of vengeance who has sacrificed thousands of lives, extirpated her own clan, ruined a kingdom and heavily decimated another in her quest for justice.
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Nibelungenlied / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Nibelungenlied / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: Basically the Völsunga saga told from Krimhild's point of view.
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Nibelungenlied / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Nibelungenlied / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Essentially a dark, pitiless exploration of the lengths one has to go to and the lines one has to cross to conduct revenge.
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Nibelungenlied / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Nibelungenlied / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: Kriemhild avenged Siegfried's death by using his sword Balmung to kill Hagen.
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Nibelungenlied / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
Nibelungenlied / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Hagen is the chief advisor to the Burgundian kings (as well as their single most competent and powerful vassal).
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Nibelungenlied / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Nibelungenlied / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super Strength: Most of the leading characters, though none more so than Siegfried and Brunhild.
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Nibelungenlied / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Nibelungenlied / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Whoever the author of Nibelungenlied was, he (or she) must have enjoyed shocking the audience with streams of blood.
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Nibelungenlied / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Nibelungenlied / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Kriemhild foresaw Siegfried's death twice through dreams. First was way before the two met in a dream where she saw a falcon be torn a part by two eagles, and second was the day before he did die in a dream where he was chased by two boars over the heath and with the wildflowers there being dyed with blood.
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Nibelungenlied / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
Nibelungenlied / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Gunther and Brunhild's second, "successful", wedding night.
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Nibelungenlied / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Nibelungenlied / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Hildebrand kills Kriemhild because she killed Hagen, and neither Dietrich nor Etzel (Kriemhild's husband!) object or rebuke Hildebrand. No one cares about all the people Hagen killed, even though most of them were innocent. And while it's not okay for a woman to kill a man even if he deserved it, it is obviously okay for a man to kill a woman. In fact, Kriemhild's sudden death by Hildebrand is so ill-motivated that it can be regarded as a last-minute contrivance just to kill her off. The need to kill her off probably arose from the expectations of the audiences, who by the end of the poem would have seen her as a pure villainess who could not go unpunished.
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Nibelungenlied / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Nibelungenlied / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Hagen and Hildebrand.
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Nibelungenlied / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Nibelungenlied / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Some Nixes tell Hagen that only the chaplain accompanying the Nibelungs will return home, so when he ferries them over, he throws the chaplain into the Danube in an attempt to drown him. However, the chaplain safely makes it back to the northern shore and returns to Worms.
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Nibelungenlied / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Nibelungenlied / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Several characters have problems with Kriemhild's planned revenge, which spills out on thousands of more or less innocent people. Most notably Giselher asks her why he too must die in Etzel's feast, despite always having been on Kriemhild's side.
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Nibelungenlied / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
Nibelungenlied / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: Siegfried's shoulder, the only part of him which wasn't made invulnerable by the dragon's blood.
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Nibelungenlied / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Nibelungenlied / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Kriemhild is sent on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after Siegfried's death drives her to this.
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Nibelungenlied / int_defd0c58	type	A Taste of Their Own Medicine
Nibelungenlied / int_defd0c58	comment	A Taste of Their Own Medicine: The Hun knights who attack the Burgundian squires tell Dankwart that they're going to kill him and dump his corpse at his brother Hagen's feet to let Hagen know the grief of seeing family members slain (in resemblance of the earlier scene where Siegfried's corpse was left for Kriemhild and her maids to find). Dankwart proves a bit too hard to kill, however.
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Nibelungenlied / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Nibelungenlied / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Siegfried, who gets killed halfway the work.
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Nibelungenlied / int_e03533c8	type	Blood Bath
Nibelungenlied / int_e03533c8	comment	Blood Bath: Siegfried becomes nearly invulnerable after bathing in the blood of the dragon — except for a spot on his shoulder that was covered by a leaf. Siegfried's blood bath predates the legends of Elizabeth Bathory (the Trope Maker) by over 500 years.
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Nibelungenlied / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Nibelungenlied / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Gunther's initial, failed, sexual advances on the night of his marriage to Brunhild end with him being overpowered, bound and suspended from a nail in the ceiling (famously depicted in Henry Fuseli's drawing of the scene). Subsequent critics have done little to downplay the various erotic implications of this scene.
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Nibelungenlied / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Nibelungenlied / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Queen Brunhild will only marry a man who can defeat her in javelin-throwing, boulder-tossing and long jump.
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Nibelungenlied / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
Nibelungenlied / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": What supposedly happened to Siegfried. Kriemhild is not fooled.
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Nibelungenlied / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
Nibelungenlied / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Balmung, Siegfried's sword (later appropriated by Hagen). Also Waske, Iring's sword.
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Nibelungenlied / int_eff85ff1	type	The Low Middle Ages
Nibelungenlied / int_eff85ff1	comment	The Low Middle Ages
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Nibelungenlied / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Nibelungenlied / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: The buhurt (spellings vary) is a jousting tournament in which the knights wear fine clothing instead of armor. Even with blunted lances, this clothing will usually be ripped to shreds, thereby demonstrating the knight's talent for conspicuous waste.
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Nibelungenlied / int_f00d01f8	type	Hat of Power
Nibelungenlied / int_f00d01f8	comment	Hat of Power: Almost everyone imagines the Tarnkappe (which grants its wearer invisibility) as such. However in the original the tarnkappe is not a hat but a cloak: since the Middle Ages, the word kappe (from Latin cappa) has shifted its meaning from "cape" to "cap".
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Nibelungenlied / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Nibelungenlied / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Poor king Etzel appears to be the only character who doesn't know Kriemhild is plotting murder in his feast. He doggedly believes he's making her happy by inviting her dear brothers to visit her, and even offers his son to be fostered in Burgundy. Moments later, the Burgundians kill said son...
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Nibelungenlied / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Nibelungenlied / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Hagen to Gunther and later also Brunhild; the root of his endless hatred for Kriemhild is that Kriemhild made Brunhild cry. (In German, even the trope namer: "Nibelungentreue". Fell out of fashion due to abuse by Those Wacky Nazis and is used exclusively as a negative since.)
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Nibelungenlied / int_f3e87937	type	Tears of Blood
Nibelungenlied / int_f3e87937	comment	Tears of Blood: Kriemhild weeps them after Siegfried's murder.
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Absurdly Sharp Blade / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Achilles' Heel / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	All Amazons Want Hercules / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Bastard Bastard / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Bed Trick / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Best Her to Bed Her / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Blood Bath / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Burning the Ships / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Conflicting Loyalty / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Conspicuous Consumption / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Crusading Widow / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Depending on the Writer / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Dragon Works / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Engagement Challenge / int_1b8faf92
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Give Me a Sword / int_1b8faf92
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Javelin Thrower / int_1b8faf92
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_1b8faf92
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Nasty Party / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Nigh-Invulnerability / int_1b8faf92
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Rape Portrayed as Redemption / int_1b8faf92
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Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Stock Weapon Names / int_1b8faf92
Nibelungenlied	hasFeature	Storming the Castle / int_1b8faf92
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