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Written around the year 1200 by an unknown Middle High German poet, probably an Austrian knight-cleric, The Song of the Nibelungs is composed of thirty-nine adventures and is divided into two major parts. Two great complexes of epic action are joined together: the life and death of Sigfrid, his glory, fault, and betrayal, and the massive destruction of those who betrayed him, engineered by Kriemhild, Sigfrid's wife.
The translator has reproduced the principal characteristics of style and language, in a verse form approximating that of the original. This modern translation, with its naturalness of language, will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike.
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reviewed Song of the Nibelungs (Waynebook; No. 15): A Verse Translation from the Middle High German Nibelungenlied on January 06, 2019
Song of the Nibelungs (Waynebook; No. 15): A Verse Translation from the Middle High German Nibelungenlied
Das Nibelungenlied
By Anonymus
Translated from Mittelhochdeutsch by Karl Simrock in 1827
Existing historical locations and recordings of living persons at the time, determine the period of creation of this epic poem to between 1202 and 1204.
It is the German counterpart to the Anglo-Saxon sagas of King Arthur and his knights and Chretien of Troie's Lancelot tales.
The geographical locations of the events stretch from Worms, the country on the river Rhine, to a northern Iceland, the castle of Brunehilde and later further south and east to Bavaria, Austria, Vienna and possibly to Bohemia or Hungary to the castle of King Etzel.
Medieval chivalry is the background to the story of love and revenge between Siegfried the white knight in shining armour and Krimhilde the beautiful and faultless princess.
Fairytale features light up the story with Siegrieds battle and slaying of a dragon, covering his body with the dragon's blood, (almost) gaining invulnerability to any future battle wounds.
Nibelungenland is Siegfried's fairytale kingdom, the location of which is hard to guess.
Siegfried holds there an immense treasure of gold and silver, diamonds and jewellery as well as mysterious invisibility cap which he uses on several occasions and not always to his advantage.
Inevitably the story also tells of the powerful dark villain knight Hagen, who causes endless sorrows, bloodshed and countless deaths with his treacherous intrigues and proceedings.
The author knows and highlights chivalry values such as unfailing courteous behaviour to ladies of their choosing and everlasting faith and mutual protection between friends.
The style of writing is unique. The story told in the German language of the nineteenth century is unusual in vocabulary and rhyme. The beauty of the original can only be guessed.
Chapter after chapter and sometimes between the lines, the author warns the reader of sorrow to come from ongoing actions and dialogues as they happen.
This epic tale is the pride of German literature of the medieval ages.
Its reading can be recommended to all friends with interest in chivalry literature.
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