The Nibelungenlied

Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revengeyet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing characterthe Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage, its consistent companion text in the manuscript tradition, continues the story, detailing the devastating aftermath of the Burgundians' bloody slaughter. William Whobrey's new volume offers bothtogether for the first time in Englishin a prose version informed by recent scholarship that brilliantly conveys to modern readers not only the sense but also the tenor of the originals.