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unusual facts about Gudrun


Gudrun

In the 2011 TV anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the witch form of Kaname Madoka named "Kriemhild Gretchen".


Burgundians

(In Old Norse sources the names are Gunnar, Brynhild, and Gudrún as normally rendered in English.) In fact, the Etzel of the Nibelungenlied is based on Attila the Hun.

Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer

Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer (1906 - December 4, 1954) was married to the three time Prime Minister of Denmark, Hans Hedtoft.

Gudrun Corvinus

Gudrun Corvinus (14 December 1931 in Stettin – 1 January 2006 in Pune) was a German archaeologist of the Nepal Research Centre in Kathmandu.

Gudrun Ure

Gudrun Ure (born 12 March 1926 in Campsie, Strathclyde) is a Scottish actress, most famous for her portrayal of the titular character in Super Gran.

Jesper Nohrstedt

Jesper was born on Amager island, but grew up in Taastrup, near Copenhagen where he lived with his Danish father Carsten, Swedish mother Gudrun and sisters Linn and Fie.

Laxdæla saga

F. L. Lucas, The Lovers of Gudrun: A Tragedy in Five Acts (in Four Plays, Cambridge University Press, 1935); premiered at the Stockport Garrick Theatre, Nov. 1938.

Marius Fiil

He and his wife Gudrun created Hvidstengruppen (the Hvidsten Group), a resistance cell which helped the British Special Operations Executive to parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark.

Mount Nisir

Mount Nisir (also spelled Mount Niṣir, and also called Mount Nimush), mentioned in the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, is supposedly the mountain known as today as Pir Omar Gudrun (elevation 9000 ft.), near the city Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Ronald Kyrmse

His latest translations include The Children of Húrin and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (as Os Filhos de Húrin and A Lenda de Sigurd e Gudrún respectively).

Women in Love

Ursula's character draws on Lawrence's wife Frieda, and Gudrun on Katherine Mansfield, while Rupert Birken has elements of Lawrence himself, and Gerald Crich of Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry.

Gudrun begins an intense friendship with Loerke, a physically puny but emotionally commanding artist from Dresden.

Zapf

Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer, professor, calligrapher, typographer and husband of Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse


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