The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

Language: English

Genres: Culture & Heritage Fiction Epics Poetry

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1. Preface
2. The Nibelungen Saga
3. The Nibelungenlied
4. Kriemhild's Dream
5. Siegfried
6. How Siegfried came to Worms
7. How Siegfried fought with the Saxons
8. How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild
9. How Gunther fared to Isenland to Brunhild
10. How Gunther won Brunhild
11. How Siegfried fared to his knights
12. How Siegfried was sent to Worms
13. How Brunhild was received at Worms
14. How Siegfried came home with his wife
15. How Gunther bade Siegfried to the feast
16. How they fared to the feast
17. How the queens berated each other
18. How Siegfried was betrayed
19. How Siegfried was slain
20. How Kriemhild mourned for Siegfried
21. How Sigmund fared home again
22. How the Nibelungen hoard was brought to Worms
23. How King Etzel sent for Kriemhild
24. How Kriemhild fared to the Huns
25. How Etzel kept the wedding feast
26. How Kriemhild thought to avenge her wrong
27. How Werbel and Schwemmel brought the message
28. How the knights all fared to the Huns
29. How Gelfrat was slain by Dankwart
30. How they came to Bechelaren
31. How the Burgundians came to Etzel's castle
32. How he arose not before her
33. How they kept guard
34. How they went to mass
35. How Bloedel was slain
36. How the Burgundians fought with the Huns
37. How they cast out the dead
38. How Iring was slain
39. How the queen bade set fire to the hall
40. How the margrave Ruediger was slain
41. How all Sir Dietrich's knights were slain
42. How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were slain

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The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Librivox recording of the Shumway prose translation, but none for the verse. - Summary by Kurt Papke

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