![]() The hunting fellowship now took their stand on every side. The king was told that Siegfried, too, was come. They bade the proud huntsmen and bold halt before a green wood over against the courses of the game, upon a passing broad glade where they should hunt. Many laden sumpters were sent before them across the Rhine, the which bare for the hunting fellowship bread and wine, meat and fish, and great store of other things, which so mighty a king might rightly have. Many bold knights did follow Gunther and his men, but Gernot and Giselher stayed at home. Then they rode from thence into a deep wood for pastime's sake. Then in a short space he took his leave and parted hence. In his arms he clasped his courteous wife and kissed her tenderly. It doth cut me to the heart, that thou wilt part from me." I had last night an evil dream, how two mountains fell upon thee. "No, no, Sir Siegfried, in truth I fear thy fall. Each and all of thy kinsmen be my friends, nor have I deserved it other of the knights." I wot not here of people who bear me aught of hate. ![]() He spake: "Dear love, I'll come back in a few short days. Tarry here, dear my lord, that I counsel by my troth." I be much adread of sundry plans and whether we have not misserved some who might bear us hostile hate. I have in truth great cause to weep so sore. I had an evil dream last night, how two wild boars did chase you across the heath then flowers grew red. She spake to the knight: "Let be your hunting. Lord Siegfried's wife wept out of measure. The noble queen began to rue that she was ever born. Then she thought of the tale she had told to Hagen, though she durst not say a whit. Read about Richard Wagner's Phantasmagoria "Der Ring des Nibelungen" Though lacking to some extent the dignity of the "Iliad", the "Nibelungenlied" surpasses the former in the deep tragedy which pervades it, the tragedy of fate, the inevitable retribution for crime, the never-dying struggle between the powers of good and evil, between light and darkness. One of its earliest critics fitly called it a German "Iliad", for, like this great Greek epic, it goes back to the remotest times and unites the monumental fragments of half-forgotten myths and historical personages into a poem that is essentially national in character, and the embodiment of all that is great in the antiquity of the race. In its present form it is a product of the age of chivalry, but it reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, and embraces not only the pageantry of courtly chivalry, but also traits of ancient Germanic folklore and probably of Teutonic mythology. There is probably no poem of German literature that has excited such universal interest, or that has been so much studied and discussed, as the "Nibelungenlied". Armed with computers, astronomy and statistics he proves the history of humankind to be both dramatically different and drastically shorter than generally presumed. He follows in steps of Sir Isaac Newton, finds clear evidence of falsification of History by clergy and humanists. Sounds unbelievable? Not after you've read "History: Fiction or Science?" by Anatoly Fomenko, leading mathematician of our time. ![]() What if Jesus Christ was born in 1053 and crucified in 1086 AD? Perceive the Crusaders as contemporaries of The Crucifixion punishing the tormentors of the Messiah. Discover the Old Testament as a veiled rendition of events of Middle Ages written centuries after the New Testament. Learn how and why Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt were invented and crafted during Renaissance.
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