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Nibelungenlied
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Nibelungenlied, a German poem of the 13th cent. embodying a story found in primitive shape in both forms of the Edda . In these the story is substantially as told by W. Morris in Sigurd the Volsung , Sigurd being the Siegfried of the German poem.
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Nibelungen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...gold. The hoard is accursed. The Nibelungenlied [song of the Nibelungen] is a long...Although marred by stylistic flaws, the Nibelungenlied contains fine delineations of character...and F. G. Ryder (1962). The Nibelungenlied has been the subject of many later...
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Gudrun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...German epic written shortly after and strongly influenced by the Nibelungenlied (see under Nibelungen ). The epic tells the story of Hilde...mmerung ) is not Gudrun but corresponds to Kriemhild of the Nibelungenlied.
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Brunhild
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Brunhild , Brünnehilde , or Brynhild , mighty female warrior of Germanic mythology and literature. In the Nibelungenlied, a medieval German epic poem (see under Nibelungen ), she is the warlike queen of Iceland, whom Siegfried defeats...
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Germans
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Thursday Donnerstag Friday Freitag Saturday Samstag/Sonnabend 4 • FOLKLORE The most famous German folktale is the Nibelungenlied dating back to ad 1200. Its characters, including Siegfried, Brunhilde, and Hagen, have become famous around the world...
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Dietrich of Bern
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Dietrich of Bern, the name given in the Nibelungenlied to Theodoric, a great king of the Ostrogoths ( c. 454–526). He was the hero of the German epics of the 13th cent. and of the Teutonic race in general, and the centre round which clustered many legends.
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Whitman, Walt(er)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Meanwhile he was reading the Bible, Shakespeare, Ossian, Scott, Homer, and something of the Greek and Hindu poets, the Nibelungenlied, and Dante, all of which, either in rhythm or thought, influenced his later writing. He entered politics as a Democrat...
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...one of the first critics to see the importance of social evolution in the history of art, and he was a champion of the Nibelungenlied. He is most noted for his extraordinary translations of Shakespeare (1797-1810), later completed by Ludwig Tieck and...
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Attila
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...devastation than other conquerors. Often called the Scourge of God, he appears in many legends, particularly as Etzel in the Nibelungenlied (see under Nibelungen ). Bibliography: See C. D. Gordon, The Age of Attila (1960); O. Maenchen-Helfen, The...
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German Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...such as Gottfried von Stra ß burg's Tristan und Isolt, Wirnt von Grafenberg's Wigalois, or the anonymous Nibelungenlied, retained broad appeal and appeared as some of the earliest chapbooks, both in prose ( Tristrant und Isalde, 1484; Wigoleis...
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