SPECIAL INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

FIRST ADVENTURE KRIEMHILD'S DREAM

SECOND ADVENTURE OF SIEGFRIED

THIRD ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WENT TO WORMS

FOURTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED FOUGHT WITH THE SAXONS

FIFTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED FIRST SAW KRIEMHILD

SIXTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER WENT TO WOO BRUNHILD

SEVENTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER WON BRUNHILD

EIGHTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED CAME TO THE NIBELUNGERS.

NINTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS SENT TO WORMS

TENTH ADVENTURE HOW BRUNHILD WAS RECEIVED AT WORMS

ELEVENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED BROUGHT HIS WIFE HOME

TWELFTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER INVITED SIEGFRIED TO THE FESTIVAL

THIRTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW THEY WENT TO THE FESTIVAL

FOURTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW THE TWO QUEENS REVILED ONE ANOTHER

FIFTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS BETRAYED

SIXTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS SLAIN

SEVENTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGFRIED WAS BEWAILED AND BURIED

EIGHTEENTH ADVENTURE HOW SIEGMUND RETURNED HOME

NINETEENTH ADVENTURE HOW THE TREASURE OF THE NIBELUNGERS WAS BROUGHT TO WORMS

TWENTIETH ADVENTURE HOW KING ETZEL SENT INTO BURGUNDY TO PROPOSE FOR KRIEMHILD

TWENTY-FIRST ADVENTURE HOW KRIEMHILD DEPARTED

TWENTY-SECOND ADVENTURE HOW THE HUNS RECEIVED KRIEMHILD

TWENTY-THIRD ADVENTURE HOW KRIEMHILD THOUGHT OF REVENGING HER INJURIES

TWENTY-FOURTH ADVENTURE HOW WERBEL AND SWEMMELINE DELIVERED THE MESSAGE

TWENTY-FIFTH ADVENTURE HOW THE LORDS ALL CAME INTO HUNGARY

TWENTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE HOW DANKWART SLEW GELFRAT

TWENTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE RUDEGER'S HOSPITALITY

TWENTY-EIGHTH ADVENTURE HOW KRIEMHILD RECEIVED HAGAN

TWENTY-NINTH ADVENTURE HOW HAGAN REFUSED TO RISE TO KRIEMHILD

THIRTIETH ADVENTURE HOW THE KNIGHTS KEPT WATCH

THIRTY-FIRST ADVENTURE HOW THE KNIGHTS WENT TO CHURCH

THIRTY-SECOND ADVENTURE HOW BLOEDEL WAS SLAIN

THIRTY-THIRD ADVENTURE HOW THE BURGUNDIANS FOUGHT WITH THE HUNS

THIRTY-FOURTH ADVENTURE HOW THEY THREW DOWN THE DEAD

THIRTY-FIFTH ADVENTURE HOW IRING WAS SLAIN.

THIRTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE HOW THE QUEEN GAVE ORDERS TO BURN DOWN THE HALL

THIRTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE HOW MARGRAVE RUDEGER WAS SLAIN

THIRTY-EIGHTH ADVENTURE HOW SIR DIETRICH'S MEN WERE ALL SLAIN

THIRTY-NINTH ADVENTURE HOW GUNTHER AND HAGAN AND KRIEMHILD WERE SLAIN

NOTES

Title: The Nibelungenlied

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The Nibelungenlied

TRANSLATED BY
WILLIAM NANSON LETTSOM

WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY
WILLIAM H. CARPENTER, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

REVISED EDITION

NEW YORK
P.F. COLLIER & SON

Copyright, 1901
By THE COLONIAL PRESS