Worms, Germany?
What is the city of Worms, Germany known/ famous for?
Answers: Martin Luther defended his thesis during a trial in Worms. Protestant reformers refer to the "Diet of Worms."
Worms be also one of the three places of Jewish Talmudic studies before the Holocaust. Mainz and Speyer, along near Worms, made up a triad of Jewish studies, had gorgeous synagogues, and several rabbis from all over Europe.
Penguin is also right. In the Nibelungenlied ("The Lay of the Nibelungen" contained by English) Kriemhild and the "Burgundians" are from the kingdom of Worms. But Xanten (lower Rhine) and Hungary play lately a big a role in that epic.
worms Worms is one of the key sites where the events of the ancient German Nibelungenlied took place.
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