The Nibelungenlied (Shumway)

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The Nibelungenlied (1909)
Anonymous, translated by Daniel Bussier Shumway

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THE NIBELUNGENLIED

THE
NIBELUNGENLIED

TRANSLATED FROM
THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY
SKETCH AND NOTES

BY

DANIEL BUSSIER SHUMWAY
Professor of German Philology in the
University of Pennsylvania

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1909

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DANIEL BUSSIER SHUMWAY

Published October 1909

TO MY WIFE

CONTENTS

	Preface	vii
	Introductory Sketch	xi
	English Bibliography	li
I.	Of Kriemhild	1
II.	Of Siegfried	4
III.	How Siegfried came to Worms	8
IV.	How he fought with the Saxons	20
V.	How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild	36
VI.	How Gunther fared to Isenland for Brunhild	44
VII.	How Gunther won Brunhild	53
VIII.	How Siegfried fared to his Men-at-Arms, the Nibelungs	65
IX.	How Siegfried was sent to Worms	72
X.	How Brunhild was received at Worms	79
XI.	How Siegfried journeyed homeward with his Wife	93
XII.	How Gunther bade Siegfried to the Feasting	98
XIII.	How they journeyed to the Feasting	106
XIV.	How the Queens reviled each other	111
XV.	How Siegfried was betrayed	120
XVI.	How Siegfried was slain	125
XVII.	How Kriemhild mourned her Husband and how he was buried	136
XVIII.	How Siegmund journeyed Home again	145
XIX.	How the Nibelung Hoard was brought to Worms	149
XX.	How King Etzel sent to Burgundy for Kriemhild	155
XXI.	How Kriemhild journeyed to the Huns	174
XXII.	How Etzel made Kriemhild his Bride	180
XXIII.	How Kriemhild thought to avenge her Wrongs	187
XXIV.	How Werbel and Swemmel brought the Message	192
XXV.	How the Lords all journeyed to the Huns	203
XXVI.	How Gelfrat was slain by Dankwart	214
XXVII.	How they came to Bechelaren	223
XXVIII.	How the Burgundians came to Etzel’s Castle	232
XXIX.	How Hagen would not rise for Kriemhild	238
XXX.	How they kept the Watch	246
XXXI.	How they went to Church	250
XXXII.	How Bloedel was slain	259
XXXIII.	How the Burgundians fought the Huns	263
XXXIV.	How they cast out the Dead	271
XXXV.	How Iring Was Slain	274
XXXVI.	How The Queen gave Orders to burn the Hall	281
XXXVII.	How Margrave Rüdeger was slain	289
XXXVIII.	How all Sir Dietrich’s Warriors were slain	302
XXXIX.	How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were slain	314
	Notes	321

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