Kriemhild of Burgundy dreams of a falcon slain by eagles, and the dream begins to come true when Siegfried, the dragon-slayer from the Netherlands, rides to Worms to win her. In thirty-nine ‘adventures’, the medieval German epic follows the wooing of Brunhild, a fatal quarrel between two queens and Hagen’s long shadow over the court of the Burgundians.
William Lettsom’s ballad-metre version, with an introduction by William H. Carpenter, remains a readable English gateway to the poem. Download the free EPUB.