Nibelungenlied

Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge-yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character-theNibelungenliedis the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. TheKlage, its consistent companion text in the manuscript tradition, continues the story, detailing the devastating aftermath of the Burgundians' bloody slaughter. William Whobrey's newvolume offers both-together for the first time in English-in a prose versioninformed by recent scholarship that brilliantly conveys to modern readers not only the sense but also the tenor of the originals.