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338 Ortlieb. In the Thidreksaga Etzel’s son is called Aldrian. There, however, he is killed because he strikes Hagen in the face, here in revenge for the killing of the Burgundian footmen.

fey, see note 1 to page 21.

Adventure XXXII. The details of the following scenes differ materially in the various sources, A comparative study of them will be found in the works of Wilmanns and Boer.

marriage morning gift (M. H. G. morgengâbe) was given by the bridegroom to the bride on the morning after the wedding. See note 1 to page 151.

 Aldrian’s son, i. e., Dankwart.

sewers (O. F. asseour, M. L. adsessor ‘one who sete the table’; cf. F. asseoir ‘to set,’ ‘place,’ Lat. ad sedere), older English for an upper servant who brought on and removed the dishes from the table.

friendship translates the M. H. G. minne trinken ‘to drink to the memory of a person,’ an old custom originating with the idea of pouring out a libation to the gods. Later it assumed the form of drinking to the honor of God, of a saint, or of an absent friend. See Grimm, Mythologie, p. 48.

Amelungs, see note 3 to page 232.

Wolfhart, see note 2 to page 232.

gauds, ornaments.

weregild (O. E. wer, ‘a man,’ gild, ‘payment of money’), legal term for compensation paid for a man killed.

Waska. In Biterolf it is the name of the sword of Walther of Wasgenstein and is connected with the old German name, Wasgenwald, for the Vosges.

parlous, older English for ‘perilous,’

fey, ‘doomed to death,’ here in the sense of ‘already slain.’ See note 1 to page 21.

strangers, i. e., those who are sojourning there far from home.

Helfrich appears also in the Thidreksaga, chap. 330, where we are told that he was the bravest and courtliest of all knights.

Master Hildebrand, see note 1 to page 232.