Song of the Nibelungs

<p>Written around the year 1200 by an unknown Middle High German poet probably an Austrian knight-cleric The Song of the Nibelungs is composed of thirty-nine adventures and is divided into two major parts. Two great complexes of epic action are joined together: the life and death of Sigfrid his glory fault and betrayal and the massive destruction of those who betrayed him engineered by Kriemhild Sigfrid's wife.</p><p>The translator has reproduced the principal characteristics of style and language in a verse form approximating that of the original. This modern translation with its naturalness of language will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike.</p>