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Title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

Author: Various

Editor: Charles Dudley Warner

Release Date: June 29, 2010 [EBook #33027]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _HOW KRIEMHILD IS LED TO ETZEL._

From the Hundeshagen Nibelungen manuscripts of the 10th
century, in the Royal Library at Berlin.

"Let the messenger ride and thus we make
Known to you how the queen rode the country."

Kriemhild is the legendary heroine of the "Nibelungenlied,"
and the rival of Brunhild. She was the wife of Siegfried
who was slain by her brothers. Later, as the wife of Etzel
(Attila) King of the Huns, she avenged the murder of
Siegfried by compassing the death of her brothers, but was
herself slain.]

LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

EDITOR

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Connoisseur Edition

VOL. XV.

NEW YORK
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

Connoisseur Edition

LIMITED TO FIVE HUNDRED COPIES IN HALF RUSSIA

_No_. ..........

Copyright, 1896, by
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
_All rights reserved_

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M., LL. D.,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.

THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D.,