Kriemhild at Siegfried's body declares Hagen as his murderer and swears revenge by Carl Rahl

Queen Grimhild: Sigurd's just so hot, and nice, and gorgeous. Gudrun: Sigurd is also in a relationship. Queen Grimhild, looking at Brynhild: People die, get kidnapped or disappear in mysterious ways all the time. I can wait.

“I was looking for a breath of life 

A little touch of heavenly light” 🎵

queen alicent is so queen gudrún coded just saying

Gudrun was a female killer whale that called SeaWorld Orlando her home from 1989 to 1994, may she rest in peace <3

do you have any songs that remind you of kriemhild?

Anon, you're asking me this at a time when I'm working on a Music Inspired By The Nibelungensage That Is Not By Wagner post in my drafts... I must admit, I just love the coincidence/fate/however you wanna call it of it all. :D

That said, talking about songs that aren't about Kriemhild but remind me of her:

Song Of The Storm by Émilie Simon. Quintessential Vindictive Mythological/Legendary Lady Song, if you ask me, but something in Émilie's voice makes me think especially of Kriemhild... somehow, she sounds to me both so young and like she has years of pent-up bitterness and hatred she's barely holding onto before she can finally let them loose at just the right time, which is a vibe I think goes well with her character even after her second wedding -- you could imagine her perpetually stuck in the moment when she realized she had lost Siegfried forever, and why. Also, I absolutely adore the line "I hope you're satisfied/To see the wind blow over me," which she could easily think about Hagen, or Gunther, or Brunhild, or Gernot and Giselher and whoever else in the court of Worms she might suspect to have been in the know of what would happen during the hunt yet told her nothing.

Tu vas le payer from the La légende du Roi Arthur musical. (Showcase version picked here exclusively because I find it so much fun.) In context, sung by Morgan as she plots the fall of Camelot and of her half-brother, Arthur. In my deranged internal ramblings, wonderfully easy to associate with Kriemhild refusing her family's attempts to make amends after Siegfried's death ("I had never stopped believing in you/But tonight your words are really not ringing true") and deciding in her heart that no, she can never never forget, and no, she will never forgive ("You can beg/Deny all/Your hands are tied/You are going to reap/What you have sown"). It could even go well with her accepting Etzel's marriage proposal because she understands what she could do with his army. I like that there's also a softness to it, made up of sadness and doubt, in between all the anger ("Heal me of you/Heal me of my pain/Heal me of your words") that could even be made into a try at convincing herself that "if they would just hand Hagen over to me, I could let them live" ("When I balanced between love and hate/Ready to restart everything from zero"). Also, I like that it's as close as I'll probably ever get to listening to an European rock opera type musical about the Nibelungenlied that's actually available to watch online and with subs, too, lol.

Forever Yours by Nightwish. I don't really think I need to explain this choice, it should be enough to listen to the lyrics. A calmer, quieter, utterly melancholy piece for a moment of solitary mourning in between all the scheming and death. "My time is yet to come/So I'll be forever yours"... besides the obvious association, it reminds me of a line said by Etzel after Kriemhild's death in Lang's Kriemhilds Rache, which I unfortunately don't remember by heart but I think sounded something like "She was never my wife. She was only ever Siegfried's."

... and I thiiiink that's everything, at least as of right now.

But as a little bonus, here's also a song that reminds me of Sigurd and Gudrun/Siegfried and Gutrune: Herr Olof by Garmarna, based on a Medieval Swedish Ballad involving a man, a siren, and an apparently harmless drink.

Thank you for this question, btw!! It's always a pleasure to get one on a topic like this.

And know you this: it was I who begged on my knees for Fjollnir to kill King Aurvandil. I pressed my lips upon his sweet, strong hand. I kissed it and I begged.

Always a fan of a Volstagg tall tale... however I hate how everyone but Simonson writes his relationship with Gudrun. They were so cute in those books but everyone else has decided instead she just just be the nagging wife trope...

Nicole Kidman in The Northman (2022) as Queen Gudrún

+11 on the source link

Gudrun Bjornsdottir

Chest 1: The pirates under Gudrun's command learned quickly that the hooks they'd long used for boarding ships would perform equally well on the multistory buildings of Novigrad. Nowadays, whenever prudent Novigradians hear something clank and scrape across their roofs, they quickly gather their most valuable possessions and hurry to lock themselves in the cellar.

Chest 2: On the Skellige Isles, women and men stand on equal footing. Both learn the arts of war and seafaring. Despite this widespread knowledge of Skellige's customs, many mainland folk give a snort and a wink at the sight of Skellige's warrior women, thinking their weapons serve merely as decorative trinkets. Gudrun has always relished opportunities to personally educate folk on the consequences of their ignorance.

Chest 3: Many Novigradians have tried to woo the beauteous pirate's heart with exquisite floral bouquets and romantic ballads. Despite these persistent efforts, Gudrun always firmly rejected their advances, for her heart had belonged to someone else...

Scroll 1: Gudrun had once been a terror of the Great Sea. At the mere sight of her dreaded longship, the Flyndr, merchant vessels would hoist their white flags of surrender without a moment's delay.

Scroll 2: That is, until the day the cutthroat Skelliger decided to offload her bounty in Novigrad... Then resolved to settle there forever.

Scroll 3: For you see, the Free City of Novigrad is laden with great riches. Why prowl the vast seas in search of unknown treasures when much more had been so conveniently concentrated already in one place?

Scroll 4: The Flyndr remains to this day moored in Novigrad's port, its deck floating scarcely above the waves. Has it fallen into disrepair or taken on water, you ask? No, no... The truth is simply that precious metals in immense quantities can prove rather heavy.

This is Gudrun. They totally didn’t steal from a temple, all the rumours are false 

~This is David’s rogue! I drew them when he first described them like a year ago, but now he’s actually playing them, I figured I’d redraw them properly~

Currently reading this book. 30% (ish) of the way through. It’s based on the legend of Brynhildr and Sigurd (a Germanic saga). The prose is poetic and feels as though you (the reader) are eavesdropping on a conversation. Both of the protagonists throughout their narration are addressing it to each other. I’m very invested in learning how it is going to develop throughout and how those developments will change and add to the story it is based off. I am enjoying the way Kate Heartfield has approached these characters and the way in which she has provided historical context alongside the fantasy elements

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я так люблю працювати з зеленим кольором і я так рідко його використовую :’)  І так, це маленька Ґудрун, що розважається у своєму рідному лісі разом з феями

I so love working with green color and I so rarely use it :') And yes, this is little Gudrun having fun in her homeland forest with the fairies

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So, here's my rant on the northman...

Has anyone thought for a second like me that amleth's daughter grows up to be just like gudrun, his mother? I've seen people compare gudrun and Olga and speculate Olga to become like gudrun which is interesting. But has anybody wondered if not Olga but her daughter turns out to be like gudrun (amleth's mother) in the future or is it just me? The daughter is highly interpreted to be st Olga of Kiev and if you wiki her you'll know that she was involved in a lot of violence and bloodshed and was a widow herself. The daughter is prophesized to be a queen but how is that possible when another king is occupying the throne. Yes amleth killed off fjolnir and his bloodline but there's another king occupying his throne. My theory is that maybe that king marries amleth's daughter in the future or forcefully brings her as a slave and later on marries her just like what aurvandill did to gudrun. The daughter then might be plotting revenge against him and seize the throne for her. She might kill her husband and take the throne for herself thus becoming the maiden king. There are similarities already between gudrun and the unborn daughter's storylines. Though it wasn't mentioned but I bet gudrun's family was killed by aurvandill's army and she was taken as a slave. She lost everything because of that man and later on got abused by him and forced to bear his son. This made her hate her son. We know amleth is dead that means the daughter and the son has already lost their father in war and what remains is their mother, what if she also gets killed and the twins get separated from eachother. This will make the daughter (maiden king) more vengeful and might also turn her into gudrun. Plus she is gudrun's biological granddaughter, it would make more sense and it would be cooler if she ends up being exactly like her coz you know blood is thicker than water