#Kriemhilds Rache

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Margarete Schön as Kriemhild of Burgund (parts 1, 2) DIE NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE (1924)

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Kriemhild my love

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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924)

dir. Fritz Lang

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Kriemhild of Die Nibelungen (1924)

Part II - Kriemhild’s Revenge

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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

1924, Fritz Lang

[rachelied]

𝕾𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖊 𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓, 𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖑𝖆𝖉𝖞, 𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖉.

#RACHELIED : independent, private & selective Kriemhild of Burgundy, mainly based on the movie "Hagen" (2024) with inspiration from germanic folklore & the Nibelungenlied. redeemed by Flora, follows back from @pixiescribbling.

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I did a little upsie & perhaps kriemhild now got her own space kdshflhdsjfk soo find her over at @rachelied now <3

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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.

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Margarete Schön as Kriemhild of Burgund

DIE NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE (1924) | dir. Fritz Lang

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Kriemhild can have a little revenge. As a treat.

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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924)

dir. Fritz Lang

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Die Nibelungen (1924) : Kriemhild's Revenge | dir. Fritz Lang

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A vengeance-minded Margarete Schön in the title role of Fritz Lang's 1924 dark fantasy epic DIE NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE ("Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache"). . Lang protested the idea that his Die Nibelungen work in the 1920s in any way presaged, paved the way for, or "was a premonition of" the ascendancy of Nazism in the early 1930s, an idea put forward in Siegfried Kracauer’s book From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. . "By making ‘Die Nibelungen,’" Lang said in a 1974 interview, "I wanted to show that Germany was searching for an ideal in her past, even during the horrible time after World War I in which the film was made. At that time in Berlin I remember seeing a poster on the street, which pictured a woman dancing with a skeleton. The caption read: ‘Berlin, you are dancing with Death.’ To counteract this pessimistic spirit I wanted to film the epic legend of Siegfried so that Germany could draw inspiration from her past, and not, as Mr. Kracauer's book suggests, as a looking forward to the rise of a political figure like Hitler or some such stupid thing as that." (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)

[rachelied]

“ 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑𝐒, 𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖, 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐋. 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐄𝐆𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑, 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐘 𝐀 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐀 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐉𝐄​, 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒, 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐋𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐀 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐏 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐁𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊. 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇. 𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖, 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐌𝐄. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐏𝐀𝐘. ”

#RACHELIED : independent, private & selective Kriemhild of Burgundy, Queen of Xanten, wife of the Dragon Slayer. mainly based on the movie "Hagen (2024) with inspiration from germanic folklore & the Nibelungenlied. redeemed by Flora ( 26, she/they, gmt+1 ), follows back from @pixiescribbling.

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exploring themes of: grief, revenge, madness, betrayal, a twist on the princess in the tower, the vilified woman,

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