We study Vassiliev invariants of Brunnian links, which are links
whose proper sublinks are all trivial.
It is known that a Brunnian link with (n+1)>2 components cannot
be
distinguished from the unlink by any Vassiliev invariant of degree
<2n.
The purpose of this talk is to study the first nontrivial case.
We
will show that the restriction of an invariant of degree 2n to
(n+1)-component Brunnian links can be expressed as a quadratic
form
on the Milnor link-homotopy invariants of length n+1.