The Nibelungenlied
by:
Anonymous (author)
D.G. Mowatt (author)
Prose translation of epic tale, best known to modern audiences as source for Wagner's Ring cycle, recounts the life and death of Sifrid (Siegfried) and about the downfall of a royal house, the Burgundians, or Nibelungen.
Prose translation of epic tale, best known to modern audiences as source for Wagner's Ring cycle, recounts the life and death of Sifrid (Siegfried) and about the downfall of a royal house, the Burgundians, or Nibelungen.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486414140 (0486414140)
Publish date: February 5th 2001
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 226
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
History,
Literature,
Epic,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Poetry,
German Literature,
Mythology,
Epic Poetry,
Germany
Well, maybe it isn't the case that the entire book is about people being slaughtered, but when you reach the end it certainly feels like it, with the last quarter of the story involving a huge revenge slaughter in the Hungarian king's home. In fact it appears as if, with the exception of a couple of...
Didn't enjoy this as much as the Volsunga Saga. Maybe because it made more sense, and because it made sense the weird stuff was just glaringly weird instead of organically so.
The great epic poem in the original medieval German, which is not impossibly hard to read, since this edition includes vocabulary and grammatical notes. I've read it right through twice. In the first half, Siegfried the supposedly perfect man is downright annoying, but at least he gets his comeuppan...
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