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The Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied

by William Nanson Lettsom

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Translator
Lettsom, William Nanson, 1796-1865
Title
The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition
Credits
E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Rory OConor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject
Nibelungen -- Poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
38468
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38468
Release Date
January 2, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Nibelungenlied — TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM NANSON LETTSOM — WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER, Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF GERMANIC PHILOLOGY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
  2. 2.SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
  3. 3.CONTENTS — THE NIBELUNGENLIED
  4. 4.FIRST ADVENTURE KRIEMHILD'S DREAM
  5. 5.SECOND ADVENTURE OF SIEGFRIED
  6. 6.THIRD ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WENT TO WORMS
  7. 7.FOURTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED FOUGHT WITH THE SAXONS
  8. 8.FIFTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED FIRST SAW KRIEMHILD
  9. 9.SIXTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER WENT TO WOO BRUNHILD
  10. 10.SEVENTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER WON BRUNHILD
  11. 11.EIGHTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED CAME TO THE NIBELUNGERS.
  12. 12.NINTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS SENT TO WORMS
  13. 13.TENTH ADVENTURE HOW BRUNHILD WAS RECEIVED AT WORMS
  14. 14.ELEVENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED BROUGHT HIS WIFE HOME
  15. 15.TWELFTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER INVITED SIEGFRIED TO THE FESTIVAL
  16. 16.THIRTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW THEY WENT TO THE FESTIVAL
  17. 17.FOURTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW THE TWO QUEENS REVILED ONE ANOTHER
  18. 18.FIFTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS BETRAYED
  19. 19.SIXTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS SLAIN
  20. 20.SEVENTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS BEWAILED AND BURIED
  21. 21.EIGHTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGMUND RETURNED HOME
  22. 22.NINETEENTH ADVENTURE HOW THE TREASURE OF THE NIBELUNGERS WAS BROUGHT TO WORMS
  23. 23.TWENTIETH ADVENTURE HOW KING ETZEL SENT INTO BURGUNDY TO PROPOSE FOR KRIEMHILD
  24. 24.TWENTY-FIRST ADVENTURE HOW KRIEMHILD DEPARTED
  25. 25.TWENTY-SECOND ADVENTURE HOW THE HUNS RECEIVED KRIEMHILD
  26. 26.TWENTY-THIRD ADVENTURE HOW KRIEMHILD THOUGHT OF REVENGING HER INJURIES
  27. 27.TWENTY-FOURTH ADVENTURE HOW WERBEL AND SWEMMELINE DELIVERED THE MESSAGE
  28. 28.TWENTY-FIFTH ADVENTURE HOW THE LORDS ALL CAME INTO HUNGARY
  29. 29.TWENTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE HOW DANKWART SLEW GELFRAT
  30. 30.TWENTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE RUDEGER'S HOSPITALITY
  31. 31.TWENTY-EIGHTH ADVENTURE HOW KRIEMHILD RECEIVED HAGAN
  32. 32.TWENTY-NINTH ADVENTURE HOW HAGAN REFUSED TO RISE TO KRIEMHILD
  33. 33.THIRTIETH ADVENTURE HOW THE KNIGHTS KEPT WATCH
  34. 34.THIRTY-FIRST ADVENTURE HOW THE KNIGHTS WENT TO CHURCH
  35. 35.THIRTY-SECOND ADVENTURE HOW BLŒDEL WAS SLAIN
  36. 36.THIRTY-THIRD ADVENTURE HOW THE BURGUNDIANS FOUGHT WITH THE HUNS
  37. 37.THIRTY-FOURTH ADVENTURE HOW THEY THREW DOWN THE DEAD
  38. 38.THIRTY-FIFTH ADVENTURE HOW IRING WAS SLAIN.
  39. 39.THIRTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE HOW THE QUEEN GAVE ORDERS TO BURN DOWN THE HALL
  40. 40.THIRTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE HOW MARGRAVE RUDEGER WAS SLAIN
  41. 41.THIRTY-EIGHTH ADVENTURE HOW SIR DIETRICH'S MEN WERE ALL SLAIN
  42. 42.THIRTY-NINTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER AND HAGAN AND KRIEMHILD WERE SLAIN
  43. 43.NOTES

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