Note 70 — Chapter II
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Dar nach sloger schiere, einen wisent bat elch. Starcher bore biere. but einen grimmen schelch. XVI Auentiure.
The testimony of the Nibelungen-Lied is not conclusive evidence that these quadrupeds existed in Germany at the time of the composition of that poem. It proves too much; for, a few lines above those just quoted, Sigfrid is said to have killed a lion, an animal which the most patriotic Teuton will hardly claim as a denizen of mediæval Germany.