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The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

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Translated by George Henry Needler (1866 - 1962)

The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Librivox recording of the Shumway prose translation, but none for the verse. - Summary by Kurt Papke

Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Epics

Language: English

Keyword(s): myths (126), Epic (27), saga (11), ring cycle (2), german hero motif (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Kurt	00:01:40
Play 01	The Nibelungen Saga	Kurt	00:42:50
Play 02	The Nibelungenlied	Kurt	00:36:36
Play 03	Kriemhild's Dream	Kurt	00:07:03
Play 04	Siegfried	Kurt	00:08:24
Play 05	How Siegfried came to Worms	Kurt	00:32:54
Play 06	How Siegfried fought with the Saxons	Kurt	00:43:25
Play 07	How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild	Kurt	00:20:45
Play 08	How Gunther fared to Isenland to Brunhild	Kurt	00:21:42
Play 09	How Gunther won Brunhild	Kurt	00:31:23
Play 10	How Siegfried fared to his knights	Kurt	00:15:27
Play 11	How Siegfried was sent to Worms	Kurt	00:15:43
Play 12	How Brunhild was received at Worms	Kurt	00:33:59
Play 13	How Siegfried came home with his wife	Kurt	00:10:55
Play 14	How Gunther bade Siegfried to the feast	Kurt	00:16:29
Play 15	How they fared to the feast	Kurt	00:11:54
Play 16	How the queens berated each other	Kurt	00:20:24
Play 17	How Siegfried was betrayed	Kurt	00:12:44
Play 18	How Siegfried was slain	Kurt	00:26:33
Play 19	How Kriemhild mourned for Siegfried	Kurt	00:23:01
Play 20	How Sigmund fared home again	Kurt	00:09:00
Play 21	How the Nibelungen hoard was brought to Worms	Kurt	00:13:33
Play 22	How King Etzel sent for Kriemhild	Kurt	00:44:54
Play 23	How Kriemhild fared to the Huns	Kurt	00:14:40
Play 24	How Etzel kept the wedding feast	Kurt	00:15:53
Play 25	How Kriemhild thought to avenge her wrong	Kurt	00:11:11
Play 26	How Werbel and Schwemmel brought the message	Kurt	00:25:49
Play 27	How the knights all fared to the Huns	Kurt	00:24:26
Play 28	How Gelfrat was slain by Dankwart	Kurt	00:19:48
Play 29	How they came to Bechelaren	Kurt	00:20:41
Play 30	How the Burgundians came to Etzel's castle	Kurt	00:12:59
Play 31	How he arose not before her	Kurt	00:19:02
Play 32	How they kept guard	Kurt	00:10:02
Play 33	How they went to mass	Kurt	00:22:26
Play 34	How Bloedel was slain	Kurt	00:09:52
Play 35	How the Burgundians fought with the Huns	Kurt	00:18:10
Play 36	How they cast out the dead	Kurt	00:06:27
Play 37	How Iring was slain	Kurt	00:16:40
Play 38	How the queen bade set fire to the hall	Kurt	00:17:01
Play 39	How the margrave Ruediger was slain	Kurt	00:31:18
Play 40	How all Sir Dietrich's knights were slain	Kurt	00:28:02
Play 41	How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were slain	Kurt	00:18:33

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