Gunther, king of Burgundy and brother of Chriemhild; his ambition was to wed Brunhilda (q.v.), who could only be won by one who surpassed her in three trials of skill and strength; by the help of Siegfried, who veiled himself in a cloak of darkness, he succeeded not only in winning her hand, but in reducing her to wifely subjection after she was wed.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gunter, Edmund * Guppy