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The Nibelungenlied (Shumway)

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The Nibelungenlied (1909)
Anonymous, translated by Daniel Bussier Shumway
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THE NIBELUNGENLIED

THE
NIBELUNGENLIED

TRANSLATED FROM
THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY
SKETCH AND NOTES

BY

DANIEL BUSSIER SHUMWAY
Professor of German Philology in the
University of Pennsylvania


Riverside Press logo 1904



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1909


COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DANIEL BUSSIER SHUMWAY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published October 1909

TO MY WIFE

CONTENTS

Preface vii
Introductory Sketch xi
English Bibliography li
I. Of Kriemhild 1
II. Of Siegfried 4
III. How Siegfried came to Worms 8
IV. How he fought with the Saxons 20
V. How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild 36
VI. How Gunther fared to Isenland for Brunhild 44
VII. How Gunther won Brunhild 53
VIII. How Siegfried fared to his Men-at-Arms, the Nibelungs 65
IX. How Siegfried was sent to Worms 72
X. How Brunhild was received at Worms 79
XI. How Siegfried journeyed homeward with his Wife 93
XII. How Gunther bade Siegfried to the Feasting 98
XIII. How they journeyed to the Feasting 106
XIV. How the Queens reviled each other 111
XV. How Siegfried was betrayed 120
XVI. How Siegfried was slain 125
XVII. How Kriemhild mourned her Husband and how he was buried 136
XVIII. How Siegmund journeyed Home again 145
XIX. How the Nibelung Hoard was brought to Worms 149
XX. How King Etzel sent to Burgundy for Kriemhild 155
XXI. How Kriemhild journeyed to the Huns 174
XXII. How Etzel made Kriemhild his Bride 180
XXIII. How Kriemhild thought to avenge her Wrongs 187
XXIV. How Werbel and Swemmel brought the Message 192
XXV. How the Lords all journeyed to the Huns 203
XXVI. How Gelfrat was slain by Dankwart 214
XXVII. How they came to Bechelaren 223
XXVIII. How the Burgundians came to Etzel’s Castle 232
XXIX. How Hagen would not rise for Kriemhild 238
XXX. How they kept the Watch 246
XXXI. How they went to Church 250
XXXII. How Bloedel was slain 259
XXXIII. How the Burgundians fought the Huns 263
XXXIV. How they cast out the Dead 271
XXXV. How Iring Was Slain 274
XXXVI. How The Queen gave Orders to burn the Hall 281
XXXVII. How Margrave Rüdeger was slain 289
XXXVIII. How all Sir Dietrich’s Warriors were slain 302
XXXIX. How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were slain 314
Notes 321


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