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p147: "It was not for nothing that Hagen had desired it. In among the rest lay the rarest gem of all, a tiny wand of gold, and if any had found its secret he could have been lord of all mankind!"

p173: "The day was now drawing to an end and they were taken to where they rested until they saw the bright dawn shine out on them again."

p261-2: Queen Kriemhild orders the hall in which the Burgundians are trapped. "One of the warriors then went over to a corpse and, removing his helmet and kneeling over a wound, began to drink the blood that oozed from it and, little used to it though he was, he thought it very good ... When the others heard that he judged it excellent, many more drank blood, and their bodies were greatly strengthened by it."