The Nibelungenlied

Siegelind (mermaid)

Role: mermaid of the Danube · First appears: Adventure XXV · How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns · Part 2

Life events

  • Siegelind warned Hagen that the heroes were journeying to their deaths in Etzel’s land.(Adventure XXV · How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns · Part 2)
    • With: Hagen
    • “An' thou comest to the Huns, thou wilt be sore deceived. Time is, that thou shouldst turn again, for ye heroes be bidden, that ye may die in Etzel's land.”
  • Siegelind foretold that only the king’s chaplain would survive and return safely to Gunther’s land.(Adventure XXV · How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns · Part 2)
    • With: Hagen
    • “It must needs be that none of you shall live, save the king's chaplain; this we know full well. He will come again safe and sound to Gunther's land.”
  • The mermaid Siegelind told Hagen that Else ruled the marches, that Gelfrat was his brother, and that the ferryman served Gelfrat.(Adventure XXV · How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns · Part 2)
    • With: Hagen Else Gelfrat
    • “The lord of these marches beareth the name of Else. His brother is hight Knight Gelfrat, a lord in the Bavarian land.”

Adventure XXV · How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns · Part 2

  • elder kin: Hadburg “For the sake of her weeds mine aunt hath lied to thee.”

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