Das Niebelungenlied. Schul-Ausgabe Mit Einem Worterbuche Von Karl Bartsch. Zweite Auflage (Paperback)

from MusicforMovies

The original hardly bares any comparison to the Wagner Ring Cycle; it still has its own rustic charm, if by charm you mean more death than a typical Shakespearean tragedy. None of the characters are very honorable and most seem to be driven by a certain brazen vindictiveness; the few points whe...

from dieewigenacht

Really. In all honestly I'm not one to review this book, I have no previous knowledge of the genre, and I just wanted to read something different. I don't know if it was the way it is written, or the time, or just the strange use of language, but it was hard for me to actually understand a good p...

from dieewigenacht

Really. In all honestly I'm not one to review this book, I have no previous knowledge of the genre, and I just wanted to read something different. I don't know if it was the way it is written, or the time, or just the strange use of language, but it was hard for me to actually understand a good p...

from ReadThisNotThat

The Nibelungenlied was one of many epics assigned for my World Literature class. It is a German war epic thought to be written in the 13th century although its author is unknown. I haven't read any other translations of this epic poem but A.T. Hatto's prose translation kept me interested througho...

from DinadansFriend

This is the version in English you should read as a narrative. I have another translation "translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original" by George Henry Needler, which I use for short quotes. Arthur Hatto has a fine hand, leaving an air of bardic strangeness in his prose tran...