Lament of the Nibelungen

Hardback
224 pages
Published: 1995
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN / EAN: 1879751739

This is a translation of the "Lament" ("Klage"), appended to most major manuscripts of the 13th-century German national epic poem, "Nibelungenlied". In rhyming couplets, based on Manuscript B in St Gallen, the 4360 verses describe the aftermath of the de