"Nibelungs" Quotes from Famous Books
... greatest epic is, without doubt, the ancient poem entitled "Nibelungenlied," or the "Lay," "Fall," or "Calamity of the Nibelungs." Although nothing certain is known concerning the real authorship of this beautiful work, it is supposed to have been put into its present form either by the Austrian minstrel von Kuerenberg or by the German poet von Ofterdingen, some time previous to the year 1210, ... — Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber |