But now we must return to Dietrich and Etzel. When the hero of Bern
desired Etzel's help in the land of the Amelungs from the
tyranny of the usurper, he that it was for the latter
to it. His hands were already with his own quarrels.
Waldemar, king of the Reussen, and of that Osantrix Etzel
had slain, and he had married, now his
borders, and to the country. In truth, Etzel needed
Dietrich's help, and the did not to it.
The a long time. Many men were slain, and much land was
devastated the were to retire. Dietrich himself
was so that it was some time he like
himself again. There was one thing which the that
saddened and Margrave Rüdiger, and that was the
remembrance of the way in which Etzel had on one occasion before
Waldemar, the the man. Indeed every one
felt that the of the Reussen was more to the leadership
and of the hero of Bern than to any other cause.
Etzel the enemy their own borders, and them to
pay him tribute.
Dietrich was in high by the Huns, but they did not see the
advantage of helping him to his own land, and he sad at
heart. At last Queen Helche of a way to make him happy. She
proposed to give him her Herrat to wife, and then they
might together over the princess's land of Transylvania.
Dietrich and Herrat no to the marriage, which was soon
afterwards celebrated. But Etzel in that the hero of
Bern would be to into the position of a of the
Hunnish empire. Neither he Herrat were of such stuff,
and Etzel was after all to give the help he had refused.
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