The Song of the Nibelungs: Part I: The Ring

As part of his initiation, young Siegfried is banished from Xanten to seek his luck until he is mature enough to inherit the kingdom. Blessed with unusual strength and beauty, our hero sets out on his journey to become Germania's most famous hero. During his adventures, Siegfried travels far north, meets a wise woman inside a volcano, fights trolls, and wrestles dwarfs.

Yet when our hero faces Fahnir the dragon, it is not his brute strength, but trickery that defeats the Lindworm. Made invincible from dragon blood and having captured the legendary Nibelungen treasure, including the god Loki's cursed ring, Siegfried returns to Germania and proposes to the beautiful Kriemhild von Burgund. Before Kriemhild's royal brothers accept Siegfrieds proposal, our hero has to pass a series of daring challenges.

The 1500-year-old saga The Song of the Nibelungs is a quintessential part of Germany's national literary epos, the stories that form a nation's identity similar to Beowulf and King Athur in the United Kingdom and beyond. Since 450 BC, Europe's great migration period of the V?lkerwanderung, Germanic storytellers have told the The Song of the Nibelungs, and they have not stopped since. This re-interpretation of the Nibelungenlied is inspired by Karl Simrock's classic 1826 translation of the saga from the extinct Mittelhochdeutsch/Middle High German into the more understandable Neuhochdeutsch/New High German.

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Author: Eulenspiegel

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Mar 12, 2024

Number of Pages: 114 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798883682352