The Nibelungenlied (Shumway)/English Bibliography

 

ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY

A complete bibliography of English works dealing with the Nibelungenlied will be found in F. E. Sandbach, The Nibelungenlied and Gudrun in England and America, London, 1904, pp. 82-117. For the convenience of the reader a short list of some of the best English accounts is given here.

G. T. Dippold.— The Great Epics of Medieval Germany. (Boston, 1882.)

F. H. Hedge. — Hours with German Classics. (Boston, 1886.)

Jessie L. Weston, Legends of the Wagner Drama. (London, 1896.)

Gustay Gruener.— The Nibelungenlied and Saga in Modern Poetry, in the Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, xi, 220-257. (Baltimore, 1896.)

C. H. Genung. — The Nibelungenlied, in Warner’s “Library of the World’s Best Literature,” xviii, 10,627 ff. (New York, 1897.)

Camillo von Klenze. — The Sigfrid Stories, in the Nibelungenlied and Elsewhere, in Poet Lore, x, 543 ff. (Boston, 1898.)

John Clarke, M. A.— A History of Epic Poetry. (Edinburgh, 1900.)

J. G. Robertson.— A History of German Literature, pp. 59-71. (Edinburgh and London, 1902.)

Winifred Faraday. — The Edda. (Nutt’s Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance and Folklore. London, 1902.)

The best translations into English verse are those by W. N. Lettson, The Fall of the Nibelungers, London, 1874, and by Alice Horton, The Lay of the Nibelungs, London, 1898.