Uta

Also known as: Lady Uta / fair Uta / the Lady Uta · Family: Burgundians · Role: queen and mother · First appears: Adventure I

In Adventure I, Uta is named as the mother of Gunther, Gernot, Giselher and Kriemhild. When Kriemhild dreamed that two eagles tore apart her trained falcon, she told her mother, and in Adventure X, Uta and Kriemhild welcomed Brunhild at Worms with embraces and kisses.

In Adventure XXIII, after Etzel sent Swemmel and Werbel to invite her kin to his feast, Kriemhild secretly spoke with the envoys and instructed them to bring her relatives, including Hagen, and convey her messages. In Adventure XXIV, Uta gave the minstrels gifts of fine cloth and gold in honor of Etzel and Kriemhild, whom she loved.

Relationship record

Life events

• Kriemhild dreamed that two eagles tore apart the falcon she had trained and told Uta.(Adventure I)
  • With: Kriemhild
  • “In the midst of these high honors Kriemhild dreamed a dream, of how she trained a falcon, strong, fair, and wild, which, before her very eyes, two eagles rent to pieces. No greater sorrow might chance to her in all this world. This dream then she told to Uta her mother”
• Uta and Kriemhild welcomed Brunhild with embraces and kisses.(Adventure X · How Brunhild Was Received At Worms · Part 1 · 📍 Worms)
  • With: Brunhild
  • “Such loving greeting hath one never heard, as the two ladies, Dame Uta and her daughter, gave the bride; upon her sweet mouth they kissed her oft.”
• Etzel sent Swemmel and Werbel as envoys to invite Kriemhild's kin to his feast.(Adventure XXIII · How Kriemhild Thought To Avenge Her Wrongs · 📍 Worms)
  • With: Etzel Swemmel Werbel Gunther Gernot Giselher Hagen
  • “He told the twain they should be envoys to the Burgundian land and bade full lordly weeds be made ready for them. Clothing was prepared for four and twenty warriors, and the message was told them by the king, how they should bid Gunther and his liegemen hither.”
• Kriemhild secretly instructed the envoys to bring her kin, including Hagen, and convey her messages.(Adventure XXIII · How Kriemhild Thought To Avenge Her Wrongs · 📍 Worms)
  • With: Kriemhild Swemmel Werbel Gernot Giselher Hagen
  • “The queen bade them be brought secretly unto her bower, where she then talked with the envoys.”
• Uta gave gifts to the minstrels in honor of Etzel and Kriemhild.(Adventure XXIV · How Werbel And Swemmel Brought The Message · Part 3)
  • With: Werbel Swemmel
  • “Then the queen bade give the minstrels of her edgings and her gold, for the sake of King Etzel and Kriemhild whom she loved.”