!!!Etzel, Hunnenkönig

Etzel, (Attila), King of the Huns (d. 453) features in heroic ( 
Epics) as Etzel and is (depicted, in contrast with the Nordic 
tradition, in the positive role of the mild ruler who grants Dietrich 
von Bern asylum and marries Siegfried's widow Kriemhild in Vienna in 
the  Nibelungenlied and in the  Dietrich Epics; it is at E.'s castle 
that the Burgundians meet their tragic end. The depiction in the sagas 
is thus extremely different from  Attila's historical image.

!Literature
H. de Boor, Das Attilabild, 1963; J. Williams, Etzel der 
riche, 1981.


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