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Revenge is Jim Staack's interpretation, in prose form, of
the second and final part of the epic Germanic poem, Das Nibelungenlied.
Many tales told and sung by minstrels a thousand years ago were assembled and first written in the 13th Century
and now-- in Revenge-- are retold in the 21st.
The lovely princess, Kriemhilt, whose husband, Sivrit the dragon slayer,was
deceitfully murdered in part one of the tale, Love and Death, seeks her retribution in Revenge.
Years have passed and Kriemhilt still mourns the loss of her husband.
One day an emissary arrives in Burgondenlant, the nobleman Reudiger, who has come on behalf of
the powerful Etzel (Attila) the ruler of the Huns and a great empire which includes Burgondenlant.
Etzel's Queen has died and he seeks the lovely Kriemhilt as his bride. Under Reudigers guidance and
influence, she ultimately makes her way to Etzel. In due time she becomes a beloved and powerful Queen
of the Huns. Through it all, however, she has never forgotten her dead husband and her love for him
remains undiminished.
Her bitterness for the loss of Sivrit has consumed her. Kriemhilt thinks of nothing but revenge.
She tricks her brothers, the Burgonden kings Gunther, Giselher and Gernot, along with the murderer
the terrifying one-eyed Hagene von Tronje. Thinking they are coming to Etzel's land for a celebration,
they soon learn that Kriemhilt has planned, not a festival, but a blood fest.
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