The Nibelungenlied And Gudrun in England And America
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26 ff. (London, 1 848. ) Nominally a review of Simrock's translation, this article, like Carlyle's, is really an essay ou the old German poem. After some observations on the growth of saga, the con- tents of the Volsungasaga and Thidrekssaga are briefly summarised, the more considerable divergencies from the Nihelungenlied being especially noted. As regards the origin and authorship, the writer brings forward the sup- position that the whole is a combination of three older compositions dealing ...with Siegfried and Brunhild, the destruction of the Burgundians, and Dietrich of Bern respectively ; Heinrich von Ofterdingen (now recognised as mythical) is mentioned as likely to have been the final 1 See pp. 39/. 92 THE NIBELUNGENLIED compiler, and his compilation is dated 1210 on the author- ity of Lachmann, whose Liedertheorie is, however, passed over. After this introduction follows a fairly full, but not very attractive, account of the contents, interspersed with verse translations — presumably from the original Old German.
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