Identifier: greatfamous05hornuoft (find matches)
Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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s as Etzel (Attila), King of the Hunns. In the Edda and in the Vilkina Saga, Germans are referred to as sourcesfor some details of the Sigurd story. So strong was, in Scandinavia, the tra-dition of the Teutonic origin of the tale, down to the twelfth century, that, in ageographical work written in Norse by the Abbot Nicolaus, the Gnita Heath,where Sigurd was said to have killed the Dragon, was still placed half-way be-tween Paderborn and Mainz. Thus it was from Germany that this grand sagaspread all over the North, including the Faroer. In the Hvenic Chronicle,in Danish songs, we even find Siegfried as Sigfred ; Kriemhild as Gremild ; and she is married to him at Worms, as in the Nibelungen Lied, while in the Edda Sigurds wife is called Gudrun, and the remembrance of Worms is lost.The scene of the Norse poems is wholly on Rhenish ground. Now, in that neighborhood, in the northwest of Germany, a Teutonic tribeonce dwelt, called Hunes, which is also traceable in Scandinavia. Sigurd him-
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OIELIT; PINXIT. SIEGFRIED SUYING THE DRAGON. SIEGFRIED 33 self IS, in the Edda, described as a Hunic king. His kith and kin dwell inHuna-land. Hune probably meant a bold and powerful warrior. The wordstill lingers in Germany in various w^ays ; gigantic grave-monuments of prehis-toric times are called Hunic Graves or Hunen-Betten, and a tall, strong mana Hiine. In his Church History the Anglo-Saxon monk Baeda, or Bcde,when speaking of the various German tribes which had made Britain into anAngle-land, or England, mentions the Hunes. In the Anglo-Saxon WanderersTale they also turn up, apparently in connection with a chieftain Aetla; thatis, Atli. In Friesland, the Hunsing tribe long preserved the Hunic name. Theword occurs in many personal and place names both in Germany and in Eng-land; for instance: Hunolt (a Rhenish hero), Hunferd, Hunlaf, Hunbrecht(champions among Frisians and Rhinelanders in the Beowulf epic); Hune-boldt (bold like a Hune); Ethelhun (noble Hune) ; then there are, i

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