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Hu. And you thought you knew your canon.

I just channel surfed into the end of a tv adaption of the Nibelungen saga, where, after Hagen murders Siegfried, he also kills Gunther in a fight over the gold, is subsequently killed by Brunhild in a sword fight, who in her turn commits suicide over Siegfried's viking-style burning boat pyre. And Giselher's girlfriend says something about the old gods having died. To reiterate, hu.

And Kriemhild's elaborate, fucked-up but and also rather grandiose revenge, which personally I always thought was the best part of the story, just doesn't happen. Which is a pity, and also kind of wrong...



::has Troy fashback::