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Echoes from Mistland
A prose translation of the Nibelungenlied, with an introduction.
A Preface to the ‘Nibelungenlied’
This book aims to make available the necessary background for an informed reading of the Nibelungenlied, the twelfth-century epic perhaps best known to non-Germans from Wagner's music dramas. Two traditions of scholarly thought exist about the Nibelungenlied. The first sees the poem as a development out of German heroic legend; the second focuses on the work's location in the contemporary literary context at the end of the twelfth century. The first and older school deals with the evolution of the story over time and the question of how short heroic poems attained epic compass in the later Nibelungenlied. The second seeks to interpret the poem in terms of the new emergence of Arthurian roman...
The Nibelungen Tradition
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rules for the Endgame
This groundbreaking interpretation offers a new approach to the reading of medieval literature and revolutionizes the study of the Nibelungenlied itself--providing a richer understanding of the work's significance both in its era and for our own.
