# Project Gutenberg hosts the Nibelungenlied in which Etzel is Attila’s German-legend name

Date: 2004

## The fact

Public-domain English and German Nibelungenlied files make Etzel’s court the scene of Burgundian destruction. Medieval epic, not a fifth-century gazette.

## Context

Legend can organise European memory as blood-feast. It is not a verified Hun menu and not a death-by-blood medical file — that disputed death tale is not upgraded on any row.

[Attila](/people/attila) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Museum, UNESCO, or critical-edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument. No fifth-century autograph file is claimed.

Official or archival record: The Nibelungenlied — Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10609; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

An epic Hun court as slaughter-house is a cohesion-harm path in reception. Medium confidence.

An epic Hun court as slaughter-house is a cohesion-harm path in reception. Medium confidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated later public record of this tradition or site. Not established: a Hun headcount or a medical cause of death as original numbers.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Attila: https://factrail.ai/people/attila

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10609
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Attila-king-of-the-Huns

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/at-nibelungenlied-etzel