Giselher

Giselher was the youngest son of Dancrat and Uote. In the Thiðrek Saga, he was called Gislher.

Giselher was the co-ruler of Burgundy, sharing the kingdom with his brothers, Gunther and Gernot. Giselher was also the brother of Kriemhild. Of the three brothers, Kriemhild loved him the most.

Giselher was opposed to Hagen's plan of murdering Siegfried, but he didn't do anything to prevent it. Giselher thought that Siegfried had done a great deal for Gunther and Burgundy, such as helping them win the war against the Saxons and win Brunhild for Gunther, so that Siegfried did not deserve this betrayal.

Upon Siegfried's death, Giselher wanted his sister to stay in his own palace, rather than living in the Netherlands with her father-in-law, Siegmund. Uote and her sons tried to comfort the inconsolable widow.

Giselher had also promised Kriemhild to become her protector. Yet he had failed to protect her property, when Hagen stole her Nibelung treasure. If anything, he and his brothers were more interested in protecting Hagen than their own sister.

When Etzel (Atli) wished to take a new wife, Giselher, along with his mother and brothers, also tried to marry her off to the powerful heathen king from Hungary. Reluctantly, Kriemhild agreed to the marriage proposal only because she saw that she could gain her revenge, since her brothers had failed to protect her from Hagen.

When Etzel invited Giselher and his brothers to a festival, Hagen was against the visit. Giselher and his brothers refused to listen to Hagen.

During their stop in Pochlarn, Giselher married Rudiger's unnamed daughter. Giselher left his new wife behind, while he went to Hungary with his brother. Giselher was supposed to take his wife back to Burgundy after visiting his sister at the midsummer festival. Rudiger accompanied his new son-in-law to Hungary; neither would return home. Nor would Giselher ever consummate his marriage with his new wife.

Upon their arrival at Etzel's palace, Kriemhild would only welcome Giselher with a warm kiss. However, he would die from his sister's machinations and revenge.

During the battle between the Nibelungs and the Huns, Giselher distinguished himself in the fighting. On being offered that she would allow her brothers to leave her kingdom, only if they leave her Hagen as her prisoner, Giselher and his brother rejected the offer.

Kriemhild and Etzel forced Rudiger to fight the Burgundians. Rudiger being his father-in-law, Giselher refused to fight Rudiger. When his brother Gernot and Rudiger killed one another in the fighting, Giselher lamented for both his brother and Rudiger's death.

When the Burgundians fought against the Amelungs (vassals and followers of Dietrich, he was confronted by Wolfhart, the nephew of Hildebrand. They killed one another. Giselher cut a deep mortal wound to Wolfhart. With his dying strength, Wolfhart delivered an overhead blow with his sword, which sliced through Giselher's helmet. Wolfhart was the last of Dietrich's vassals to die. Wolfhart told his uncle not to mourn for him, not because he had killed a king (Giselher), but because he had died at the hand of a king.

According to the Thiðrekssaga, Gislher (Giselher) was the last of the Burgundian kings to die. Rather than outlive his brothers, Gislher attacked Hildebrand and was killed.