The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance
This thorough study of the moral values of the "Nibelungen" and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, yet sympathetically, the epic may well be described as the story of...
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
1962
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