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The margravine conjures them by their troth to tell how they parted from her husband, saying that the lie must have an end. Then spake the fiddler, Swemmelin the messenger: Lady, we wished to deny to you that which we yet must say, since no man could conceal it; after this hour, ye see Margrave Rüdiger no more alive. The margravine, we are afterward told, dies of grief at the news, as does old Queen Ute at her abbey of Lors.
It describes the search among the dead bodies in the house of slaughter, the burying of them, the journey of Etzels fiddler, Swemmelin, to the Rhine by way of Bechlarn and Passau to give the tidings of the massacre to Queen Brunhild, his return, and the final parting from Etzel of Dietrich and his wife Herrat, who also take Bechlarn on their way.
Swemmel appears mostly in the diminutive form "Swemmelin". "Heimburg" lies on the Danube near the Hungarian border. "Misenburg" is the modern Wieselburg on the Danube, twenty-one miles southeast of Pressburg.
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