Nibelungenlied | Chapters 31-39 Summary
Chapter 31
After morning mass, festivities commence, with games and mock battles. One of these is the "bohort," a pageantry sport played on horseback with shields and lances. Rudiger, noticing the angry mood of many of Gunther's men, recommends that the bohort be canceled, but it continues anyway. Volker enters the game. When he charges, his lance kills one of the Huns (ostensibly by accident). Everyone jumps for their swords, but Etzel arrives to settle the matter. He rules that the death was an accident.
Kriemhild, meanwhile, again asks her vassals for help in...
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