Helca

Family: Huns · Role: queen · First appears: Adventure XX · How King Etzel Sent To Burgundy For Kriemhild · Part 1

Life events

• Helca died.(Adventure XX · How King Etzel Sent To Burgundy For Kriemhild · Part 1)
  • “Since fair Helca was dead,”
• Helca, Etzel's wife, is dead, leaving the noble maidens she had trained without her care.(Adventure XX · How King Etzel Sent To Burgundy For Kriemhild · Part 2)
  • “The noble king bade complain to you his need. His folk is joyless; my lady, the royal Helca, my master's wife, is dead. Through her hath many a high-born maid been orphaned, daughters of noble princes, whom she hath trained.”

Adventure XX · How King Etzel Sent To Burgundy For Kriemhild · Part 1

• married with Etzel “Since fair Helca was dead, they spake: ‘Would ye gain a noble wife, the highest and the best king ever won, then take this same lady; the stalwart Siegfried was her husband.’”

Adventure XX · How King Etzel Sent To Burgundy For Kriemhild · Part 2

• married with Etzel “my lady, the royal Helca, my master's wife, is dead.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Nibelungenlied. Made with Rho MD.