Editing Arminius (section)

===Germanic sagas===
In the early 19th century, attempts were made to show that the story of Arminius and his victory may have lived on in the [[Old Norse]] [[saga]]s,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Ueber den Ursprung der Siegfriedsage|author=A. Giesebrecht|journal=Germania|issue=2|year=1837|url=https://archive.org/details/UeberDenUrsprungDerSiegfriedsage/}}</ref> in the form of the dragon slayer [[Sigurd]] of the [[Völsunga saga]] and the [[Nibelungenlied]]. An Icelandic account<ref>{{citation |title= Nikulas Bergsson, Arnamagnæan Collection manuscript 194, 8yo |author=unknown | year=1387}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title= Altnordische Kosmographie: Studien und Quellen zu Weltbild und Weltbeschreibung in Norwegen und in Island vom 12. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert |author= Simek, R. |journal= Berlin/New York | year=1990}}</ref> states that Sigurd "slew the dragon" in the Gnitaheidr—today the suburb Knetterheide of the city of [[Bad Salzuflen]], located at a strategic site on the [[Werre]] river which could very well have been the point of departure of Varus' legions on their way to their doom in the Teutoburg Forest. One of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century, [[Guðbrandur Vigfússon]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Grimm centenary; Sigfred-Arminivs, and other papers
|author= G. Vigfusson, F. York Powell|publisher=Oxford Clarendon Press|year=1886|url=https://archive.org/details/grimmcentenarysi00gudb}}</ref> identified Sigurd as Arminius. This educated guess was also picked up by [[Otto Höfler]], who was a prominent [[Nazi]] academic during [[World War II]].<ref>O. Höfler, "Siegfried Arminius und die Symbolik," ''Heidelberg'' (1961), 60–64, and also in ''Siegfried, Arminius und der Nibelungenhort'' (Vienna 1978); F.G. Gentry, W. McConnell, W. Wunderlich (eds.), ''The Nibelungen Tradition. An Encyclopedia'' (New York–London 2002), article "Sigurd".</ref>