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Western Rome does seem to be breaking out of its death spiral, but there are still severe threats on the horizon and the future shape of things is still unclear. The thing that could most save the Empire when things begin to stabilise is a formalisation of actual hereditary succession or...

IIRC the story of Sigurd and Sigmund is from Scandinavian sources and the Nibelungenlied is a relatively late version of it.

They kinda did during the World Wars.