Heinzle, Joachim. Die Nibelungen: Lied und Sage. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2005. 144 pp. 70 illustrations. euro56.00 hardcover.

The three sections of Joachim Heinzle's monograph on the Nibelungen ait devoted to three logical stages of evidence surrounding the Nibelungenlied as a significant cultural document. Heinzle presents evidence (1) on the pre-history of Nibelungen topics as preserved in the Northern sagas and poetry and also in examples from Merovingian and Burgundian history during periods showing correspondences to the Nibelungenlied; (2) the Nibelungenlied itself is discussed as a ...

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