Kriemhild

[ kreem-hilt ]

noun

1. the wife of Siegfried and the sister of Gunther.

Kriemhild

/ ˈkriːmˌhɪldə; ˈkriːmhɪlt /

noun

1. (in the Nibelungenlied ) the wife of Siegfried. She corresponds to Gudrun in Norse mythology

Example Sentences

As Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas put it in "The Cambridge World History of Food," "Like all cabbages, broccoli was originally eaten for its stems, with the flowering heads a later development."

From Salon

I use from two different farmers for the most part, and dairy companies, Ronnybrook and Kriemhild.

From Salon

Kirakosian, meanwhile, points out that the character of the "vindictive queen" is something shared by both Cersei Lannister and Kriemhild, the main royal character in the medieval German epic Nibelungenlied, which gives students an idea of family rivalries in the Middle Ages.

From Time

Der Rosengarten tells of the conflicts which took place round Kriemhild’s “rose garden” in Worms—conflicts from which Dietrich always emerges victor, even when he is confronted by Siegfried himself.

From Project Gutenberg

But the strength, thoroughness, and in its own savage way, charm of Kriemhild's character, and the incomparable series of battles between the Burgundian princes and Etzel's men in the later cantos—cantos which contain the very best poetical fighting in the history of the world—far more than redeem this.

From Project Gutenberg