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152 mighty oaths that it should lie concealed as long as any one of them might live. Later they could not give it to themselves or any other.

Kriemhild’s mind was heavy with fresh sorrow over her husband’s end, and because they had taken from her all her wealth. Her plaints ceased not in all her life, down to her latest day. After Siegfried’s death, and this is true, she dwelt with many a grief full thirteen years, that she could not forget the warrior’s death. She was true to him, as most folk owned.