GUDRUN A Mediaeval Epic

Preface.

Contents.

Names of Persons.

Names of Places.

Tale the First. HOW HAGEN WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE GRIFFIN.

Tale the Second. HOW HAGEN SLEW THE GRIFFIN.

Tale the Third. HOW HAGEN SAILED TO HIS HOME.

Tale the Fourth. HOW HAGEN WAS MET BY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER.

Tale the Fifth. HOW WÂ-TE WAS SENT TO IRELAND AS A SUITOR.

Tale the Sixth. HOW SWEETLY HORANT SANG.

Tale the Seventh. HOW THE MAIDENS CAME TO SEE THE SHIP, AND WERE CARRIED TO HETTEL’S KINGDOM.

Tale the Eighth. HOW HAGEN FOLLOWED HIS DAUGHTER.

Tale the Ninth. HOW GUDRUN WAS SOUGHT BY SIEGFRIED.

Tale the Tenth. HOW HARTMUT SENT TO WOO GUDRUN.

Tale the Eleventh. HOW HERWIC SENT TO SEEK GUDRUN AND HOW HARTMUT CAME HIMSELF.

Tale the Twelfth. HOW HERWIC MADE WAR ON HETTEL, AND HOW GUDRUN WAS BETROTHED TO HIM.

Tale the Thirteenth. HOW SIEGFRIED MADE WAR AGAINST HERWIC.

Tale the Fourteenth. HOW HETTEL SENT TIDINGS FROM HERWIC’S LAND.

Tale the Fifteenth. HOW HARTMUT CARRIED AWAY GUDRUN.

Tale the Sixteenth. HOW HILDA SENT TO HETTEL AND HERWIC TO ASK THEIR HELP AGAINST HARTMUT.

Tale the Seventeenth. HOW HETTEL CAME TO THE WULPENSAND IN SEARCH OF HIS DAUGHTER.

Tale the Eighteenth. HOW LUDWIG SLEW HETTEL, AND STOLE AWAY IN THE NIGHT.

Tale the Nineteenth. HOW THE HEGELINGS WENT HOME TO THEIR OWN LAND.

Tale the Twentieth. HOW HARTMUT WENT HOME TO NORMANDY.

Tale the Twenty-First. HOW GUDRUN MUST WASH CLOTHES ON THE BEACH.

Tale the Twenty-Second. HOW HILDA MADE WAR TO BRING BACK HER DAUGHTER.

Tale the Twenty-Third. HOW HILDA’S WARRIORS LANDED IN SIGHT OF HARTMUT’S KINGDOM.

Tale the Twenty-fourth. HOW THEIR COMING WAS MADE KNOWN TO GUDRUN.

Tale the Twenty-Fifth. HOW HERWIC AND ORTWIN FOUND GUDRUN.

Tale the Twenty-Sixth. HOW THE HEGELINGS LANDED NEAR LUDWIG’S CASTLE.

Tale the Twenty-Seventh. HOW LUDWIG AND HARTMUT MET THE HEGELINGS.

Tale the Twenty-Eighth. HOW HERWIC SLEW LUDWIG.

Tale the Twenty-Ninth. HOW HARTMUT WAS TAKEN PRISONER.

Tale the Thirtieth. HOW GUDRUN WAS BROUGHT HOME TO HILDA.

Tale the Thirty-First. HOW THE FOUR KINGS WERE WEDDED IN HILDA’S LAND.

Tale the Thirty-Second. HOW THEY ALL WENT TO THEIR HOMES.

Transcriber’s Notes