Epic poem · c. 1200
The Nibelungenlied
Translated by Daniel Bussier Shumway (1909)
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The Middle High German epic of Siegfried, Kriemhild and the fall of the Burgundians, composed in Austria around 1200, in thirty-nine adventures, here in Daniel Bussier Shumway's English prose, whose paragraphs follow the stanzas of the original.
Contents · 39 parts
- Adventure I9 paragraphs
- Adventure II: Of Siegfried4 paragraphs
- Adventure III: How Siegfried Came to Worms44 paragraphs
- Adventure IV: How He Fought with the Saxons38 paragraphs
- Adventure V: How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild21 paragraphs
- Adventure VI: How Gunther Fared To Isenland for Brunhild39 paragraphs
- Adventure VII: How Gunther Won Brunhild52 paragraphs
- Adventure VIII: How Siegfried Fared To His Men-At-Arms, the Nibelungs27 paragraphs
- Adventure IX: How Siegfried Was Sent To Worms22 paragraphs
- Adventure X: How Brunhild Was Received At Worms48 paragraphs
- Adventure XI: How Siegfried Journeyed Homeward With His Wife17 paragraphs
- Adventure XII: How Gunther Bade Siegfried To The Feasting35 paragraphs
- Adventure XIII: How They Journeyed To The Feasting15 paragraphs
- Adventure XIV: How The Queens Reviled Each Other53 paragraphs
- Adventure XV: How Siegfried Was Betrayed21 paragraphs
- Adventure XVI: How Siegfried Was Slain35 paragraphs
- Adventure XVII: How Kriemhild Mourned Her Husband And How He Was Buried38 paragraphs
- Adventure XVIII: How Siegmund Journeyed Home Again21 paragraphs
- Adventure XIX: How The Nibelung Hoard Was Brought to Worms22 paragraphs
- Adventure XX: How King Etzel Sent To Burgundy For Kriemhild94 paragraphs
- Adventure XXI: How Kriemhild Journeyed To The Huns14 paragraphs
- Adventure XXII: How Etzel Made Kriemhild His Bride12 paragraphs
- Adventure XXIII: How Kriemhild Thought To Avenge Her Wrongs13 paragraphs
- Adventure XXIV: How Werbel And Swemmel Brought The Message45 paragraphs
- Adventure XXV: How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns41 paragraphs
- Adventure XXVI: How Gelfrat Was Slain By Dankwart40 paragraphs
- Adventure XXVII: How They Came To Bechelaren29 paragraphs
- Adventure XXVIII: How The Burgundians Came To Etzel's Castle28 paragraphs
- Adventure XXIX: How Hagen Would Not Rise For Kriemhild29 paragraphs
- Adventure XXX: How They Kept The Watch19 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXI: How They Went To Church29 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXII: How Bloedel Was Slain16 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXIII: How The Burgundians Fought The Huns33 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXIV: How They Cast Out The Dead10 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXV: How Iring Was Slain20 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXVI: How The Queen Gave Orders To Burn the Hall30 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXVII: How Margrave Rudeger Was Slain58 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXVIII: How All Sir Dietrich's Warriors Were Slain54 paragraphs
- Adventure XXXIX: How Gunther And Hagen And Kriemhild Were Slain31 paragraphs