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The Fall of the Nibelungs

Margaret Armour

FormatEbook
Published2003
Words76,925
LanguageEnglish
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About this book
An English translation of the *Nibelungenlied*, the medieval German heroic epic centred on Siegfried, Kriemhild's revenge, and the downfall of the Burgundian kings. It suits readers interested in Germanic mythology, medieval literature, and epic poetry.

Margaret Armour

Margaret Armour was a Scottish poet, novelist, and translator. In 1895 Armour married William Brown MacDougall. She translated the Nibelungenlied from Middle High German into English prose, first published in 1897 as The Fall of the Nibelungs. In 1910 she translated The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, and in 1928 she translated Gudrun.

Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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