By Anonymous
'In historical stories many marvels are instructed us ... now you could pay attention such marvels told!'
The maximum of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious country of the Nibelungs with its helpful treasure-hoard guarded by means of dwarves and giants, of Prünhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune-telling water-sprites and a cloak of invisibility. pushed through the clash among Kriemhilt, the blameless maiden grew to become she-devil, and her antagonist, the stoic, indomitable Hagen, the tale is one in every of human tragedy, of affection, jealousy, homicide, and revenge, finishing in slaughter on a awful scale. The paintings of an nameless poet of c.1200, seeing that its rediscovery within the eighteenth century the Nibelungenlied has emerge as considered as the nationwide epic of the Germans. It has encouraged numerous reworkings and variations, together with masterpieces: Fritz Lang's two-part movie, and Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.
This is the 1st prose translation for over 40 years: exact and compelling, it really is observed via a wealth of precious heritage details.
Readership: Readers of epic literature, sagas, myth, medieval literature, Wagner enthusiasts; scholars of German literature, medieval literature in translation, medieval classes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
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Appear a conscious artist as she strives, like any child, to bring order out of chaos? - 'tames', 'Wilder', 'only', 'tell' are words of struggle and choice. Perhaps she is even aware of the impact of her beauty, her 'fair Aspect', and deliberately uses it as an instrument? (In his 'To a Young Beauty', W. B. ) During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many artists believed that Art can move towards, as well as away from, 'reality',* yet unresolved tensions haunt the gardens, the golden worlds and Edens of Art.
40 MARVELL Nature with designs of her own. And inescapably, the 'Roses' yoke together divine and erotic; the flower of love, above all, has its thorns. Yet, if such undercurrents spell present ambiguity and future danger, the child's essential innocence is not in doubt. Her power, though she knows, and uses it, remains untainted; the poet's response witnesses - through its own ironies - to this. Only in the next two stanzas does the poem develop towards its larger pattern, starting with a journey into conjecture, and into time: Who can foretel for what high cause This Darling of the Gods was born !
Tames', 'Wilder', 'only', 'tell' are words of struggle and choice. Perhaps she is even aware of the impact of her beauty, her 'fair Aspect', and deliberately uses it as an instrument? (In his 'To a Young Beauty', W. B. ) During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many artists believed that Art can move towards, as well as away from, 'reality',* yet unresolved tensions haunt the gardens, the golden worlds and Edens of Art. When does 'native majesty' turn into pride, cultivation into tyranny?