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Anonymous
The Lay of the Nibelung Men
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664588821
Table of Contents
I. Of Kriemhild, and of her Dream
II. Of the Fostering and the Knighting of Siegfried
III. How Siegfried rode to the City of Worms
IV. How Siegfried warred against the Saxons
V. How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild
VI. How they Voyaged on Love-quest to Isen-land
VII. How the Warrior-maid was won to be Gunther’s Bride
VIII. How Siegfried went to the Niblung Land for his Knights
IX. How Siegfried bare Tidings to the Royal City
X. Of the strange Bridal of Gunther and Brunhild
XI. How Siegfried and his Wife journeyed Home
XII. How Gunther bade Siegfried to a Festival
XIII. How they Fared to the Feast-tide
XIV. How the Queens spake bitter Words Each unto Other
XV. How woven for Siegfried was the Net of Betrayal
XVI. How Siegfried was Murdered
XVII. How Siegfried was Mourned and Buried
XVIII. How Kriemhild would not return to the Lowland with Siegmund
XIX. How the Hoard of the Niblungs came to Worms
XX. How Queen Kriemhild was Wooed for the King of the Huns
XXI. Of Kriemhild’s journeying to the Land of the Huns
XXII. How King Etzel wedded Kriemhild
XXIII. How Kriemhild thought on Vengeance for her Wrongs
XXIV. How the Hun-King’s Minstrels bade the Burgundians to the Feast
XXV. How the Princes rode to the Land of the Huns
XXVI. How Foes fell on them as they journeyed by Night
XXVII. How they came to Bechlaren
XXVIII. How the Burgundians came to Etzel’s strong City
XXIX. How Hagen refused to rise up in Presence of the Queen
XXX. How Hagen and Volker kept Watch while Men slept
XXXI. How they bore them at Mass and Tourney
XXXII. Of the Slaughter of the Squires and the Slaying of the Slayer
XXXIII. How the Fight began in Etzel’s Hall
XXXIV. How they cast forth the Dead
XXXV. How Iring fought and died
XXXVI. How the Queen bade set fire to the Hall
XXXVII. How the Margrave Rüdiger was slain
XXXVIII. How Dietrich’s Men were all slain
XXXIX. How Gunther, Hagen, and Kriemhild were slain
INTRODUCTION
If we accept as our definition of an Epic:—(a) A long poem, (b) of an interest not less than national[1], describing (c) in noble language (d) a series of naturally and organically connected actions (e) of heroic actors, we shall find that, while we must deny the name to some so-called epics[2], we have to thank the spirit, the imagination, the genius, of the Middle Ages for two great epics. If some critics are inclined to place these on a lower plane, for the alleged reason that the language is lacking in nobility, we may reply that it is a rash literary judgment which appraises the language and style of a far-off time by the standards either of a later civilization and culture, or by those of a quite different race, as of Greece. That is entitled to be called noble language