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Updated: May 2, 2025
Brunhilde is an immortal a goddess, who renounces her immortality to become a woman. She sleeps on the top of a high mountain and she is surrounded by a circle of flame; and here she sleeps, despite all efforts to arouse her, until awakened by the touch of Siegfried the one human being in all the universe who could awaken the sleeping princess.
"It sounds like the cry of a little child. I shall run to my cave." But as he heard the cry again, something made him want to see what it was. He slipped cautiously through the bushes, in the direction from which the sound came. When he reached the place he found a little baby boy. This was the same forest to which Brunhilde had fled, bearing the broken sword to Siegmund's wife.
Family contests, and wars full of horrors, in which the tragic feud of two women, Brunhilde of Austrasia, a daughter of Athanagild, king of the Visigoths, and Fredegunde of Neustria, played a prominent part, ensued. In 613 Clotaire II. of Neustria united the entire kingdom. Brunhilde was captured, and put to death in a barbarous manner. The son of Clotaire, Dagobert, was a worthless king.
Siegfried sprang to his feet. "I do not know fear. I have tried with all my might to learn it. Oh, help me to find the mountain where she sleeps!" The little bird flew away in the opposite direction from where the wicked Nibelungs stood quarreling, and Siegfried joyously hurried after. A heavy storm arose as Siegfried and the bird neared the foot of the mountain where Brunhilde slept.
'Who is she anyhow? I says, flat 'n' plain, for Lord knows 'f he'd found a rich relation I wanted my old flannels for cleanin' cloths hereafter. But he 'xplained 's Felicia Hemans got Brunhilde out o' a book the Nibble suthin' 'r other.
So Brunhilde Susan was fixed, but every one else was all upset 'n' undecided, 'n' it was plain 't nothin' wouldn't work, so Mrs. Macy up 'n' proposed 't they put all but the baby in a sugar-bowl 'n' shake 'em up 'n' draw. "Well, we did, 'n' it was 'xcitin', I c'n tell you, 'n' I wish you'd been there to see their faces. Mrs.
Still Thor hesitated; but Freia came and laid her white hand on his arm, and looked up into his scowling face pleadingly. "To save me, Thor," she begged. And Thor said he would go. Then there was great sport among the Æsir, while they dressed Thor like a beautiful maiden. Brunhilde and her sisters, the nine Valkyrie, daughters of Odin, had the task in hand.
Brunhilde Susan can't never expect to get nothin' out o' her front half, for I was give to understand 't the Brunhilde 's Felicia Hemans was so book-took with is long dead, 'Dragged at horses' tails, she had the face to tell me the joint godmother! ''N' who by? I couldn't in decency but ask. 'By the horses, says Felicia Hemans, a-gigglin' fit to beat the band. Well, Mrs.
"Heiho! hoyotoho! heiho!" And a battle-maiden came in sight. Brunhilde was very happy to see her sister again, but the battle-maiden looked sad. She brought bad news from Valhalla. She and Brunhilde sat down upon the rock, and the battle-maiden told the sad story of the last days of the giants. "Brunhilde," she said, "Wotan does not know that I have come. Valhalla is in deepest gloom.
"They say it's better to be born lucky 'n rich," said Susan, getting up to go, "'n' what you said jus' now, Mrs. Lathrop, proves 't it's true in your case. For if I had been obliged to take Brunhilde Susan or any other of 'em, it'd surely 'a' been a awful care to you just now, what with your picklin' 'n' your not bein' no great hand at childern anyhow." Mrs. Lathrop assented with two slow nods.
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