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  frontline: a whale of a business: inside seaworld: the gudrun transaction
The Dolfinarium had no male killer whales in their collection, but did have one female, named "Gudrun." Den Herder proposed that Gudrun be sent to Sea World USA on a breeding loan.
Any calves born to Gudrun during her stay at SeaWorld would be split between Sea World and the Dolfinarium, the first born going to Sea World, the second to the Dolfinarium, etc.
Because Gudrun was one of the main attractions in the Dolfinarium's performing collection, den Herder was concerned that her absence would result in a loss of profits.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/whales/seaworld/gudrun   (398 words)

  
  Gudrun - LoveToKnow 1911
Gudrun is carried off by a king of Normandy, and her kinsfolk, who are in pursuit, are defeated in a great battle on the island of Willpensand off the Dutch coast.
The finest parts of the epic are those in which Gudrun, a prisoner in the Norman castle, refuses to become the wife of her captor, and is condemned to do the most menial work of the household.
Gudrun is composed in stanzas similar to those of the Nibelungenlied, but with the essential difference that the last line of each stanza is identical with the others, and does not contain the extra accented syllable characteristic of the Nibelungen metre.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gudrun   (658 words)

  
 31 Gudrun's Vengeance
Gudrun knew well that there was evil intent in her husband's heart, so she carved runes of warning upon a gold ring and gave it to Vinge as her gift to Hogne.
But Gudrun sent unto him a harp, and he played upon it with his toes, making such sweet music that all the vipers were charmed into a magic sleep save one, which gnawed his breast until it reached his heart to suck his life's blood.
Gudrun would accept not of blood payment, but she desired that a funeral feast be held for Gunnar and Hogne.
www.earth-history.com /Europe/Teutonic/chap31.htm   (2914 words)

  
 XXXIII. The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. Gudrun Wedded to Atli. 1909-14. The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. ...
Thereafter Gudrun gat her gone into the wild woods, and heard on all ways round about her the howling of wolves, and deemed death a merrier thing than life.
So Grimhild comes to hear where Gudrun has take up her abode, and she calls her sons to talk with her, and asks whether they will make atonement to Gudrun for her son and her husband, and said that it was but meet and right to do so.
And at that feast drinks Atli his bridal with Gudrun; but never did her heart laugh on him, and little sweet and kind was their life together.
www.bartleby.com /49/4/133.html   (652 words)

  
 Gudrun Ensslin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gudrun Ensslin (August 15, 1940 – October 18, 1977) was a founder of the German terrorist group Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang).
In her family, the social injustices of the world were often discussed and Gudrun is said to have been sensitized to social problems in West Germany and the world as a whole.
At the age of eighteen, Gudrun got the chance to spend a year in the United States of America, where she attended a high school in Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gudrun_Ensslin   (765 words)

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