Editing Gudrun (section)

==Origins==
Gudrun is believed to have her origins in two historical figures who featured in two originally independent traditions, one about the death of [[Sigurd]] and another about the destruction of the Burgundians by the Huns.{{sfn|Millet|2008|pp=195–196}}

In the first instance, Gudrun's quarrel with Brunhild, which results in Sigurd's death at the urging of the latter, is widely thought to have its origins in the quarrel between the two historical [[Franks|Frankish]] queens, [[Brunhilda of Austrasia]] and [[Fredegund]], the latter of whom had Brunhild's husband [[Sigebert I]] murdered by his brother [[Chilperic I]], her husband. In the oral tradition, Brunhilda's name has become attached to the murderer rather than the wife.{{sfn|Haymes|Samples|1996|p=22}}{{sfn|Gentry|McConnell|Müller|Wunderlich|2011|p=70}} The second element of Fredegund's name, meanwhile, corresponds with the first in Gudrun's.{{sfn|Rosenfeld|1981}}

In the case of the destruction of the Burgundians, Gudrun can be traced to [[Attila]]'s wife [[Ildico]], who was rumored to have murdered him.{{sfn|Müller|2009|p=20}} The written form Ildico is generally taken to represent the Germanic name ''*Hildiko'', which would be a diminutive form of the name ''Hild'' and would thus correspond to the second element in ''Kriemhild''.{{sfn|Gillespie|1973|p=21}}