Epic poem · c. 1200

The Nibelungenlied

by Anonymous (Middle High German)

Translated by George Henry Needler (1904)

The Middle High German epic of Siegfried, Kriemhild and the fall of the Burgundians, composed in Austria around 1200, in thirty-nine adventures and 2,379 four-line stanzas, rendered into English verse by George Henry Needler.

Contents · 39 parts

• First Adventure: Kriemhild's Dream76 lines
• Second Adventure: Siegfried96 lines
• Third Adventure: How Siegfried Came to Wormsabout 380 lines
• Fourth Adventure: How Siegfried Fought with the Saxonsabout 500 lines
• Fifth Adventure: How Siegfried first Saw Kriemhildabout 240 lines
• Sixth Adventure: How Gunther Fared to Isenland to Brunhildabout 260 lines
• Seventh Adventure: How Gunther Won Brunhildabout 370 lines
• Eighth Adventure: How Siegfried Fared to his Knights, the Nibelungenabout 190 lines
• Ninth Adventure: How Siegfried was Sent to Wormsabout 200 lines
• Tenth Adventure: How Brunhild was Received at Wormsabout 440 lines
• Eleventh Adventure: How Siegfried Came Home with his Wifeabout 140 lines
• Twelfth Adventure: How Gunther Bade Siegfried to the Feastabout 220 lines
• Thirteenth Adventure: How They Fared to the Feastabout 140 lines
• Fourteenth Adventure: How the Queens Berated Each Otherabout 250 lines
• Fifteenth Adventure: How Siegfried was Betrayedabout 160 lines
• Sixteenth Adventure: How Siegfried was Slainabout 340 lines
• Seventeenth Adventure: How Kriemhild Mourned for Siegfriedabout 280 lines
• Eighteenth Adventure: How Sigmund Fared Home Againabout 110 lines
• Nineteenth Adventure: How the Nibelungen Hoard was Brought to Wormsabout 170 lines
• Twentieth Adventure: How King Etzel Sent for Kriemhildabout 590 lines
• Twenty-First Adventure: How Kriemhild Fared to the Hunsabout 180 lines
• Twenty-Second Adventure: How Etzel Kept the Wedding-feastabout 200 lines
• Twenty-Third Adventure: How Kriemhild Thought to Avenge Her Wrongabout 140 lines
• Twenty-Fourth Adventure: How Werbel and Schwemmel Brought the Messageabout 340 lines
• Twenty-Fifth Adventure: How the Knights all Fared to the Hunsabout 320 lines
• Twenty-Sixth Adventure: How Gelfrat was Slain by Dankwartabout 260 lines
• Twenty-Seventh Adventure: How They Came to Bechelarenabout 270 lines
• Twenty-Eighth Adventure: How the Burgundians Came to Etzel's Castleabout 160 lines
• Twenty-Ninth Adventure: How He Arose not before Herabout 240 lines
• Thirtieth Adventure: How They Kept Guardabout 120 lines
• Thirty-First Adventure: How They Went to Massabout 290 lines
• Thirty-Second Adventure: How Bloedel was Slainabout 120 lines
• Thirty-Third Adventure: How the Burgundians Fought with the Hunsabout 230 lines
• Thirty-Fourth Adventure: How They Cast Out the Dead76 lines
• Thirty-Fifth Adventure: How Iring was Slainabout 210 lines
• Thirty-Sixth Adventure: How the Queen Bade Set Fire to the Hallabout 220 lines
• Thirty-Seventh Adventure: How the Margrave Ruediger was Slainabout 400 lines
• Thirty-Eighth Adventure: How All Sir Dietrich's Knights were Slainabout 360 lines
• Thirty-Ninth Adventure: How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were Slainabout 220 lines

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