The river Humber. For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright. And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says: For my princely…
(3 syl.). Margrave of Bechelaren, a wealthy Hun, liegeman of King Etzel. In the Nibelungen-Lied he is represented as a most noble character. He was sent to Burgundy by King Etzel, to…
The paladins of Charlemagne were all scattered by the battle of Roncesvallës. The champions of Diderick were all assassinated at the instigation of Chriemhilda, the bride of Ezzel, King of…
or Chriem-hild. A woman of unrivalled beauty, sister of Gunther, and beloved by Siegfried, the two chief heroes of the Nibelungenlied. Siegfried gives her a talisman taken from Gunther's…
Ursula being asked in marriage by a pagan prince, fled towards Rome with her eleven thousand virgins. At Cologne they were all massacred by a party of Huns, and even to the present hour “…
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