The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0140441379 ISBN 13: 9780140441376

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1965

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A story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage

This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the two queens, Hagen's treacherous murder of Siegfried, and Kriemhild's eventual triumph.

Composed nearly eight hundred years ago by an unnamed poet, the Nibelungenlied is the principal literary expression of those heroic legends of which Richard Wagner made such free use in The Ring. A. T. Hatto's translation transforms an old text into a story as readable and exciting as Homer's Iliad.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Written around AD 1200, probably by a professional entertainer for performance at court in Austria


A.T. Hatto has translated Tristan and Eschenbach's Parzival for Penguin Classics.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1965
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140441379
• ISBN 13: 9780140441376
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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