The Lay of the Nibelungs

For other English-language translations of this work, see Nibelungenlied.

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The Lay of the Nibelungs (1901)
by Anonymous, translated by Alice Horton, edited by Edward Bell

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The Lay of the Nibelungs is an epic poem written anonymously in Middle High German around 1200.
This copy is an English translation by Alice Horton, revised and edited for a second edition by Edward Bell.

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THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNGS

GEORGE BELL & SONS

LONDON : YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN

CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO.

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

THE LAY OF THE

NIBELUNGS

METRICALLY TRANSLATED FROM
THE OLD GERMAN TEXT
BY ALICE HORTON

REVISED AND EDITED BY

EDWARD BELL, M.A.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE ESSAY
ON THE NIBELUNGEN LIED BY
THOMAS CARLYLE

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS

YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1901

First edition, 1898

Second edition revised, 1901

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
Editor's Preface		vii
Thomas Carlyle on the Nibelungen Lied		xiii
Facsimile from the St. Gall MS to face		lxxi
THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNGS: ADVENTURES.
I.	Kriemhilda	1
II.	Siegfried	4
III.	How Siegfried came to Worms	8
IV.	How Siegfried fought the Saxons	24
V.	How Siegfried first saw Kriemhilda	46
VI.	How Gunther went to Iceland after Brunhilda	56
VII.	How Gunther won Brunhilda	67
VIII.	How Siegfried went to fetch the Nibelungs	82
IX.	How Siegfried was sent to Worms	90
X.	How Brunhilda was received at Worms	99
XI.	How Siegfried went Home with his Wife	118
XII.	How Gunther bade Siegfried to the Festival	124
XIII.	How they journeyed to the Festival	133
XIV.	How the Queens railed at one another	139
XV.	How Siegfried was betrayed	150
XVI.	How Siegfried was slain	156
XVII.	How Kriemhilda mourned for her Husband, and how he was buried	171
XVIII.	How Siegmund went back to his own Land	183
XIX.	How the Nibelung Hoard was brought to Worms	188
XX.	How King Etzel sent to Burgundy after Kriemhilda	195
XXI.	How Kriemhilda went to the Huns	220
XXII.	How Etzel espoused Kriemhilda	228
XXIII.	How Kriemhilda thought to avenge her Injury	236
XXIV.	How Werbel and Schwemmel did their Errand	242
XXV.	How the Lords all went to the Huns	257
XXVI.	How Gelfrat was slain by Dankwart	270
XXVII.	How they came to Bechelaren	281
XXVIII.	How the Burgundians came to Etzel's Stronghold	293
XXIX.	How he stood not up before her	300
XXX.	How they kept Watch and Ward	310
XXXI.	How they went to Church	315
XXXII.	How Bloedelin was slain	327
XXXIII.	How the Burgundians fought with the Huns	333
XXXIV.	How they cast forth the Dead	343
XXXV.	How Iring was slain	346
XXXVI.	How the Queen bade that the Hall be set on fire	355
XXXVII.	How the Margrave Rüdeger was slain	364
XXXVIII.	How Sir Dietrich's Warriors all were slain	381
XXXIX.	How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhilda were slain	396
Index of Proper Names		407

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