The Nibelungenlied
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This great German heroic epic, set down by an unknown poet around the year 1200, joins old legend to courtly splendour. Siegfried, a young prince who has slain a dragon and won a hoard of treasure, comes to the Burgundian court and marries the princess Kriemhild. His murder, plotted by the grim vassal Hagen after a bitter quarrel between two queens, splits the poem in two. The second half belongs to Kriemhild, whose long grief hardens into a revenge that draws her whole people toward slaughter at the court of Etzel. It stands among the founding epics of European literature. Alice Horton's translation carries the verse into English.
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- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World Classics
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