The Lay of the Nibelung Men
by Arthur S. Way
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About this eBook
- Translator
- Way, Arthur S. (Arthur Sanders), 1847-1930
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
- Subject
- Nibelungen -- Poetry
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59831
- Release Date
- June 28, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNG MEN
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNG MEN — 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
- 5.FOOTNOTES
- 6.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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