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Kudrun

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[kood-roon] / ˈkʊd run /

noun

German Legend.
  1. the heroine of the Middle High German epic of the 13th century.


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In the Middle-High German epic of Kudrun, the adventures of the fleet of Queen Hilda when attracted by the loadstone mountain at Givers, in the North Sea, are narrated at some length.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

It forms the subject of the first part of the mediaeval German poem Kudrun, and characters from the story are mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon poems Widsith, l.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora

Among his publications were editions of the Nibelungenlied, Walther von der Vogelweide, Kudrun, &c.;

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

An example of the mediaeval belief is found in the Middle High German Kudrun, written at the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall

Both these are in octosyllables: Titurel is in a singular and far from felicitous stanza, which stands to that of Kudrun much as the Kudrun stanza does to that of the Nibelungen.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

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