Teutonic Legends in The Nibelungen Lied and The Nibelungen Ring

by W.C. Sawyer, Wilhelm Wagner, Fritz Schultze

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A guide for English-speaking readers to the mythology behind Richard Wagner's operas - myths brought from the Orient to the shores of the Baltic. The legends which have Siegfried for their central figure are found in their earlier written forms in the Eddas and the Sagas, as preserved in Iceland. They appear again in changed forms in the great medieval epic, the Nibelungen Lied, and, in our own day, notably in Wagner's majestic operas of the Nibelungen...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1410205185

ISBN13:9781410205186

Release Date:April 2003

Publisher:Patrick Henry University Press

Length:356 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"

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