LADY KRIEMHILDE (Grimhild, Hild, Brunhild) was as prolific a historic as well as mythical figure. Wife to Attila the Hun (in one historical account), she murdered him on the night of their wedding to exact revenge for the death of her former husband, Siegfried (cheif dragonslayer and greatest hero of the Nordic people).

In alternative legends, she is portrayed as a demonic mythical figure of darkness and death. The english word 'grim' is drived from her name (it actually means 'armoured warrior woman'). Then again, she is also the heroine of the greatest epic of Teutonic mythology, The Nibelungenlied, in which she confronts her cowardly brothers with the sword and shield of her dead husband as a demand for action.