Excerpt from The Lay of the Nibelung Men: Translated From the Old German Text For this obscurity of authorship there is, in the case of the Ni???elungenlied, more reason than with the other epics. What is conjectural with respect to the Iliad and the C/zanson, is indubitable with respect to the Lied, viz. That both in its origin and in its construction it was composite, that the elements of which it is a union are in date, perhaps in place of origin, widely remote from each other. The Saga of the Niblungs, of which the ...
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Excerpt from The Lay of the Nibelung Men: Translated From the Old German Text For this obscurity of authorship there is, in the case of the Ni???elungenlied, more reason than with the other epics. What is conjectural with respect to the Iliad and the C/zanson, is indubitable with respect to the Lied, viz. That both in its origin and in its construction it was composite, that the elements of which it is a union are in date, perhaps in place of origin, widely remote from each other. The Saga of the Niblungs, of which the Nibelungmlied is the finished poetical develop ment, is a union of mythical and historical elements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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