The present article discusses the situation of a hunt in the aveture 16 of the Nibelungenlied and provides a lexical and semantic analysis of certain lexis related to the hunt. The aventure (chapter) 16 marks the border between two logical parts of the poem, the first of which ends with the murder of Sigfried (Sigird of the Norse Völsunga Saga ). Burgundian royal court initiates the hunt in order to get an opportunity to murder Siegfried after the conflict between Kriemhild (Siegfried’s wife and Gunther’s sister) and Brunhild (Gunter’s wife). With the hunt being merely a pretence to bring Siegfried out of the city of Worms and leave him without his armour, the episode of the hunt does not provide many details on the of chasing the game. The armour and weapons draw more attention from the author. The murder in the forest is a mark of the German version of the tale, while the Norse one has him killed in a bedroom. However, the author of the forest episode followed an older text which had described Siegfried killing the dragon. It is possible to presume that the author have used this disappeared episode to create the hunting episode and Siegfried’s murder as it is depicted in the Nibelungenlied.