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===Other traditions and attestations=== The ninth-century anonymous Saxon poet known as [[Poeta Saxo]] records that Attila's wife killed him to avenge the death of her father.{{sfn|Uecker|1972|p=44}} The Danish historian [[Saxo Grammaticus]] records in his ''[[Gesta Danorum]]'' that a Saxon minstrel tried unsuccessfully to warn the Danish prince [[Canute Lavard]] of the betrayal of his cousin [[Magnus the Strong]] by singing of "the famous treachery of Grimhild against her brothers" (''notissimam Grimildae erga fratres perfidiam'').{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=138}}{{sfn|Uecker|1972|p=48}} The phrase "Kriemhilden hôchzît" (Kriemhild's festival) is attested in other medieval German works to denote an especially bloody battle.{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=231}} In a song of the mid-thirteenth-century wandering lyric poet Der Marner, "whom Kriemhild betrayed" (''wen Kriemhilt verriet'') is mentioned as a popular story that the German courtly public enjoyed hearing, along with tales of Sigurd's death and the hoard of the Nibelungs.{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=2}} The Hungarian chronicler [[Simon of Kéza]] (late thirteenth-century) records that Attila the Hun was killed by his wife Kriemhild.{{sfn|Müller|2009|p=20}}
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