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钱春绮译尼贝龙根之歌
(austria) Unknown Austrian Knight
A heroic epic written in Middle High German. It was written around 1200 by an unknown Austrian knight. The poem has a total of 39 songs, 2379 stanzas, and 9516 lines. Divided into two parts, it tells a series of stories about Prince Siegfried of the Netherlands who killed a dragon in his early years. The epic originated from the historical facts of the struggle between the Huns and the Burgundians in the late period of the Great Migration. The characters in it are all extracted from a large number of folklore heroes, but they have a strong feudal consciousness. It is the most widely circulated and influential work in medieval German literature.
A heroic epic written in Middle High German. It was written around 1200 by an unknown Austrian knight. The poem has a total of 39 songs, 2379 stanzas, and 9516 lines. Divided into two parts, it tells a series of stories about Prince Siegfried of the Netherlands who killed a dragon in his early years. The epic originated from the historical facts of the struggle between the Huns and the Burgundians in the late period of the Great Migration. The characters in it are all extracted from a large number of folklore heroes, but they have a strong feudal consciousness. It is the most widely circulated and influential work in medieval German literature.