The Nibelungen Lied: An Essay

Excerpt from The Nibelungen Lied: An Essay Deutsche Museum, succeeded in awakening something like a universal popular feeling on the subject; and, as a natural consequence, a whole host of Editors and Critics, of deep and of shallow endeavor, whose labors we yet see in progress. The Nibelun gen has now been investigated, trans lated, collated, commented upon, with more or less result, to almost bound less lengths besides the Work named at the head of this Paper, and which stands there simply as one of the latest, we have Versions into the modern tongue by Von der Hagen, by Hins berg, Lachmann, Biisching, Zeune, the last in Prose, and said to be worthless Criticisms, Introductions, Keys, and so forth, by innumerable others, of whom we mention only Bocen and the Broth ers Grimm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.