The Nibelungenlied Paperback Book 9780199238545

The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem a revenge saga on an epic scale which tells how dragonslayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen This is the first prose translation for over forty years with full introductory materials