It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.

The Klage, its consistent companion text in the manuscript tradition, continues the story, detailing the devastating aftermath of the Burgundians' bloody slaughter.

This Companion to the Nibelungenlied draws on the expertise of scholars from Germany, Britain, and the United States to offer the reader fresh perspectives on a wide variety of topics regarding the epic: the latest theories regarding ...

The original was written as a poem in 2,400 stanzas, divided up into 39 Aventiuren ("adventures"). This edition has been translated into poem format with the exact metre of the German original.

Reading the Nibelungenlied is an introduction to a German example of the 'heroic' genre which provides an interpretative commentary aimed at students and readers with an interest in both medieval and modern receptions of the Nibelungen ...

The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition of Germanic heroic legend that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries and that spread throughout almost all of Germanic-speaking Europe.

This is the first prose translation for over forty years: accurate and compelling, it is accompanied by a wealth of useful background information.

Biography of England and Nottinghamshire cricketer Joe Hardstaff.