Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen more bloody revenge is inevitable Hagen steals the Nibelungentreasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibilitycap Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate but Hagens men raid them and kill the child She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heirs baptism a few years later but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brotherinlaw behind her surprisingly chivalric husbands back while Gunther accepts hoping to avoid a far bloodier war despite the danger for his party of knights which materializes