Editing Brunhild (section)

=== Biterolf und Dietleib ===

In ''[[Biterolf und Dietleib]]'' (c. 1250), a parody of sorts of the heroic world,{{sfn|Lienert|2015|p=142}} Brunhild is shown to be concerned with avoiding loss of life in the war between the Burgundians and the heroes of the Dietrich von Bern cycle. She gives [[Rüdiger von Bechelaren]], who acts as a messenger for the Dietrich heroes, a lance with a banner on it as a reward for his having done his job well. At a later point, Rüdiger and Brunhild negotiate the transformation of the battle into a tournament, though this quickly becomes an actual battle once more. When the Dietrich heroes succeed in reaching the gates of Worms, Brunhild and the other Burgundian women force a stop to hostilities. In the conciliatory festivities that follow, Brunhild explains that she gave Rüdiger the lance so that all the warriors would be encouraged to show the best of their abilities, not so that any would be killed.{{sfn|Millet|2008|pp=373–374}}

Brunhild's role in ''Biterolf'' is usually taken to parodic, and includes the detail that she says that she is afraid of Gunther's strength, whereupon Rüdiger reminds her of her own violent past.{{sfn|Lienert|2015|p=147}} That Brunhild has given Etzel's most important hero, Rüdiger, a lance to fight against the Burgundians, without however, any of them dying, likely had a strong parodic effect on the poem's audience.{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=377}} ''Biterolf'' also makes no mention of the hostility between Kriemhild and Brunhild.{{sfn|Lienert|2015|p=147}}