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The Nibelungenlied, Traditional, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Contributor(s): Traditional (Author), Needler, George Henry (Translator)
ISBN: 1598189158     ISBN-13: 9781598189155
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE:   $24.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2006
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Annotation: Quoth the translator, "This translation of the Nibelungenlied is published with the simple purpose of placing one of the world's great epic poems within the reach of English readers." George Henry Needler attempted not just to transliterate the original, but to reproduce its poetic form in modern English; the result is a fine, fine thing, and well worth examination.
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- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 380 pages
 
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Quoth the translator, "This translation of the Nibelungenlied is published with the simple purpose of placing one of the world's great epic poems within the reach of English readers." George Henry Needler attempted not just to transliterate the original, but to reproduce its poetic form in modern English; the result is a fine, fine thing, and well worth examination.

This particular translation is from an edition published as The Nibelungenlied in 1909. The translation is engaging and fairly modern English prose: it opens "Full many a wonder is told us in stories old, of heroes worthy of praise, of hardships dire, of joy and feasting, of the fighting of bold warriors, of weeping and of wailing; now ye may hear wonders told. . . ."


Contributor Bio(s): Traditional: - The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs (the "Nibelungensaga"), which include oral traditions and reports based on historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries.