Note 5 — INTRODUCTION (continued 8)

The differences in the names in the two stories are mainly due to the fact that in the Volsunga-saga they assume a Norse form, in the Nibelungenlied a German one. Thus, Sigurd becomes Siegfried; Gunnar becomes Gunther; Hogni, Gunnar’s brother, becomes Hagen, Gunther’s uncle; Gudrun, as a character, becomes Kriemhild, whose name, however, is taken from Grimhild, a very different personage from the kindly and pious mother of Kriemhild. The Hun-king, Atli, becomes Etzel; Andvari, the dwarf who was robbed of the Hoard, appears as Alberich.