If you held the hoard, would you keep the name?
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If you held the hoard, would you keep the name?
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If you held the hoard, would you keep the name?
In this episode, we trace how a single name-Nibelung-moves through centuries of texts, people, and translations, shifting meaning as it travels from real Burgundians to mythic treasure-holders. The episode asks what identity becomes when language and ownership separate the name from its original bearers.
Person: Gundahar
Date: 437
Text: Nibelungenlied
Language change noticed by: monk copying Waltharius around 920
Place: Rhine / Burgundian kingdom
- A monk copying Waltharius circa 920 encounters the name Nibelung and substitutes a phrase meaning "worthless fellows."
- The historical Burgundian king Gundahar dies in 437 in a catastrophe that becomes foundational memory for Germanic peoples.
- In the Nibelungenlied, two princes named Nibelung and Schilbung argue over an enormous hoard that cannot be fairly divided.
- Siegfried attempts to judge and divide the treasure, fails despite effort, kills the princes, and takes both the hoard and the name.
- As the hoard moves to new holders (including the Burgundians), the name Nibelung transfers with it, becoming property rather than lineage.
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