Kriemhild married Etzel, king of the Huns, thirteen years after Sigurd's murder, binding herself to the mightiest king in Christendom so that his warriors might one day serve her vengeance. Their son Ortlieb was cut down at the catastrophic feast where her long-laid plot at last ignited.
Hagen beheaded the young prince Ortlieb, son of Kriemhild and Etzel, at the feast in the Nibelungenlied to provoke open battle. This act of shocking cruelty against Kriemhild's child ignited the final catastrophic fighting at the Hunnic court.
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