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334 Bloedel is Bleda, the brother of Attila, with whom he reigned conjointly from 433 to 445. In our poem the name appears frequently with the diminutive ending, as Bloedelîn.

Werbel and Swemmel, who doubtless owe their introduction to some minstrel, enjoy special favor and are intrusted with the important mission of inviting the Burgundians to Etzel’s court, an honor that would hardly be accorded to persons of their rank. Swemmel appears mostly in the diminutive form Swemmelîn.

Heimburg lies on the Danube near the Hungarian border.

Misenburg is the modern Wieselburg on the Danube, twenty-one miles southeast of Pressburg.

Etzelburg was later identified with the old part of Budapest, called in German Ofen, through the influence of Hungarian legends, but, as G. Heinrich has shown, had no definite localization in the older M. H. G. epics. See Bleyer, PB. Beit. , 433 and 506. The name occurs in documents as late as the fifteenth century.

Herrat, the daughter of King Nentwin, is frequently mentioned in the Thidreksaga as Dietrich’s betrothed. She is spoken of as the exiled maid.

Nentwin is not found in any other saga, and nothing else is known of him. See W. Grimm, Heldensage, 103.

Ortlieb is not historical, and in the Thidreksaga Etzel’s son is called Aldrian. Bleyer, Die germanischen Elemente der ungarischen Hunnensage, PB. Beit. , 570, attempt to prove the identity of the names by means of a form * Arda, giving on the one hand Hungarian Aledar, Aldrian, on the other German Arte, Orte.

Hungary. According to the account in Waltharius, Hagen spent his youth as a hostage at Etzel’s court.

hostage, i. e., he has never betrayed you to your enemies.

Gran, royal free city of Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube opposite the influx of the Gran, twenty-four miles northwest of Budapest.

a thousand and sixty. This does not agree with the account in Adventure XXIV, where we read of a thousand of Hagen’s men, eighty of Dankwart’s, and thirty of