Gud·run

(go͝od′ro͞on′) also Guth·run (go͝oth′-)

n. Mythology

The daughter of the king of the Nibelungs and wife of Sigurd, later of Atli, in the Volsunga Saga.

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Gudrun

(ˈɡʊdruːn) ,

Guthrun

Kudrun

(Norse Myth & Legend) Norse myth the wife of Sigurd and, after his death, of Atli, whom she slew for his murder of her brother Gunnar. She corresponds to Kriemhild in the Nibelungenlied

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Gud•run

(ˈgʊd run)

n.

(in the Volsunga Saga) the sister of Gunnar and wife of Sigurd: corresponds to Kriemhild in the Nibelungenlied.

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Through his detailed reading of the epic Kudrun and of Gottfried von Strassburg's romance Tristan, both from the thirteenth century, Koch examines the various narrative elements and their relationship to the heroic epic, Christianity, or the courtly romance and how they overlap.

Koch, Sebastian. Der Kampf des Helden gegen den 'egeslichen trachen.' Zur narrative Funktion des Topos vom Drachenkampf in vergleichender Perspektive [The Heroic Struggle Against the Terrible Dragons: The Narrative Function of the Dragon Fight in Comparative Perspectives]

The earliest accounts involving Wade are Widsith (11) (l.22 Wada [weold] Haelsingum), Thidrekssaga af Bern (12) and Kudrun (13) (Chambers 95).

Chaoskampf, salvation and dragons: archetypes in Tolkien's Earendel

(Most of the surviving legends connect him with the sea in some way, while he is also cited, somewhat obscurely, as a model of humility in a thirteenth-century Latin sermon.) In the Middle High German Kudrun he appears as the faithful retainer of Hetel.

The injuries of time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght and Wade's Boat

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