Siegfried, slayer of a dragon and master of the Nibelung treasure, comes to the Burgundian court at Worms to win the princess Kriemhild, and helps King Gunther win the warrior queen Brunhild by trickery. Out of that deception grow a quarrel between the queens, a murder and a long revenge. Daniel B. Shumway’s translation keeps close to the Middle High German.
Germany’s great medieval heroic epic, essential reading alongside the Norse Volsunga Saga and Wagner’s Ring. Download the free EPUB.