niderlant

Updated: June 23, 2025

After the marriage, Brynhild discovers the trick, and incites her husband and his brothers to kill Sigurd. Sigmund, as in all other Norse sources, is said to be king in Frankland, which, like the Niderlant of the Nibelungen Lied, means the low lands on the Rhine.

L. Winifred Faraday - The Edda, Volume 2: The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology,: Romance, and Folklore, No. 13