Epic poem · c. 1200

The Nibelungenlied

by Anonymous (Middle High German)

Translated by William Nanson Lettsom (1850; revised edition 1901)

The Middle High German epic of Siegfried, Kriemhild and the fall of the Burgundians, composed in Austria around 1200, in thirty-nine adventures, rendered into English rhymed verse by William Nanson Lettsom in 1850.

Contents · 39 parts

• First Adventure: Kriemhild's Dream76 lines
• Second Adventure: Of Siegfriedabout 110 lines
• Third Adventure: How Siegfried Went to Wormsabout 390 lines
• Fourth Adventure: How Siegfried Fought with the Saxonsabout 500 lines
• Fifth Adventure: How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhildabout 240 lines
• Sixth Adventure: How Gunther Went to Woo Brunhildabout 280 lines
• Seventh Adventure: How Gunther Won Brunhildabout 380 lines
• Eighth Adventure: How Siegfried Came to the Nibelungersabout 200 lines
• Ninth Adventure: How Siegfried was Sent to Wormsabout 200 lines
• Tenth Adventure: How Brunhild was Received at Wormsabout 470 lines
• Eleventh Adventure: How Siegfried Brought his Wife Homeabout 140 lines
• Twelfth Adventure: How Gunther Invited Siegfried to the Festivalabout 220 lines
• Thirteenth Adventure: How They Went to the Festivalabout 150 lines
• Fourteenth Adventure: How the Two Queens Reviled One Anotherabout 250 lines
• Fifteenth Adventure: How Siegfried was Betrayedabout 160 lines
• Sixteenth Adventure: How Siegfried was Slainabout 360 lines
• Seventeenth Adventure: How Siegfried was Bewailed and Buriedabout 290 lines
• Eighteenth Adventure: How Siegmund Returned Homeabout 110 lines
• Nineteenth Adventure: How the Treasure of the Nibelungers was Brought to Wormsabout 220 lines
• Twentieth Adventure: How King Etzel Proposed for Kriemhildabout 600 lines
• Twenty-First Adventure: How Kriemhild Departedabout 190 lines
• Twenty-Second Adventure: How the Huns Received Kriemhildabout 200 lines
• Twenty-Third Adventure: How Kriemhild Thought of Revenging her Injuriesabout 140 lines
• Twenty-Fourth Adventure: How Werbel and Swemmeline Delivered the Messageabout 340 lines
• Twenty-Fifth Adventure: How the Lords all Came into Hungaryabout 340 lines
• Twenty-Sixth Adventure: How Dankwart Slew Gelfratabout 260 lines
• Twenty-Seventh Adventure: Rudeger's Hospitalityabout 280 lines
• Twenty-Eighth Adventure: How Kriemhild Received Haganabout 160 lines
• Twenty-Ninth Adventure: How Hagan Refused to Rise to Kriemhildabout 250 lines
• Thirtieth Adventure: How the Knights Kept Watchabout 130 lines
• Thirty-First Adventure: How the Knights Went to Churchabout 320 lines
• Thirty-Second Adventure: How Blœdel was Slainabout 120 lines
• Thirty-Third Adventure: How the Burgundians Fought with the Hunsabout 240 lines
• Thirty-Fourth Adventure: How They Threw Down the Dead84 lines
• Thirty-Fifth Adventure: How Iring was Slainabout 210 lines
• Thirty-Sixth Adventure: How the Queen Gave Orders to Burn Down the Hallabout 220 lines
• Thirty-Seventh Adventure: How Margrave Rudeger was Slainabout 410 lines
• Thirty-Eighth Adventure: How Sir Dietrich's Men were all Slainabout 360 lines
• Thirty-Ninth Adventure: How Gunther and Hagan and Kriemhild were Slainabout 230 lines

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