#and don't get me started on the Nasuverse-original shenaniganary

[hassiegfrieddoneanythingwrong]

It's still really funny that Attila in real life history died of a nosebleed soon after taking Ildico (Hildiko) as his newest wife. Died thanks to his diet in 453.

And poor Ildico did nothing to him, despite being blamed for it. Yet the poets used her in part as inspiration for both Gudrun and Kriemhild.

They really went "NO. The scourge of God can't die like that! It's too anticlimactic!" and then made up a new death for him. Or they just believed the popular idea that Ildico killed him in his sleep.

Partially as revenge for the slaughter of the Burgundians in the 430s, which was ordered by Flavius Aetius and undertaken by the Huns.

Best part is that his uncles Rugila and Octar were involved, not him.

...

You know, I'm going to take the advice commonly given by this gacha and stop thinking too hard about it. Because layering legend, history, and adaptations leads to too many holes in the story.

And Fate already has the whole fiction vs reality bit with Charlie and Karl. Plus the multiple textures idea via mythologies that falls apart under scrutiny.

How the fuck did Gudrun marry Altera again when she also married Sigurd after drugging him with a love potion? (In some adaptations, it was her mother who did it. Which makes it more of an unfortunate tragedy.)

...my word, lass may have married the white titan instead!

I don't want to think about how they had kids...

To be fair, Kriemhild (the overall figure) is also possibly inspired by Brunhilda of Austrasia and Fredegund, and looking at the actions those two did, definitely understandable on her actions in the Nibelungenlied. The only thing she and Ildico/Hildako really have in common is "last wife of Attila/Etzel" (poor Ildico 😔).

And dear anon, I'm already ahead on you on the "don't think about it too hard" front and just go with the flow. With how fast and loose the writers (most often Nasu) love to play around with the rules (it's been said or at least heavily implied that Charlie and his Paladins are fictional, yet Astolfo has a catalyst back in Apoc), loving to synch up figures who don't have much of a connection in the first place/barely do have one (Indra and Gozu Tennou, Tamamo and Amaterasu, Kama and Mara, Scáthach and Skadi, Vincent van Gogh and Clytie...), and sometimes just not thinking shit through, it's just best to not take it too seriously.

If any of the writers do decide to take cues from the Nordic versions of the Nibelungenlied (which is rather doubtful, since it's not guaranteed that those have been translated into Japanese) and do bring up the had children with this person thing, it probably would be hand-waved by "alien ways" or something similar.