The Fall of the Nibelungs
Unknowntranslated Bymargaret Armour and Translated Bymargaret Armour
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"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the destruction of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, in 436 by mercenary Huns recruited for the task by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius. The introduction to the 1908 edition summarizes the story, "And so 'the discord of two women,' to quote Carlyle, 'is as a little spark of evil passion, which ere long enlarges itself into a crime; foul murder is done; and now the sin rolls on like a devouring fire, till the guilty and the innocent are alike encircled with it, and a whole land is ashes, and a whole race is swept away.'", a story not for the faint of heart. Summary by Phil Schempf.
Dedicated proof-listeners: Carolin Ksr & DaveC (7 hr 41 min)
Chapters
First Adventure | 4:23 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Second Adventure | 5:16 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Third Adventure | 18:19 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Fourth Adventure | 24:17 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Fifth Adventure | 11:29 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Sixth Adventure | 13:26 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Seventh Adventure | 17:10 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Eighth Adventure | 9:38 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Ninth Adventure | 9:13 | Read by Michael Wolf |
Tenth Adventure | 20:05 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Eleventh Adventure | 6:32 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twelfth Adventure | 10:04 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirteenth Adventure | 6:58 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Fourteenth Adventure | 11:35 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Fifthteenth Adventure | 7:46 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Sixteenth Adventure | 15:58 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Seventeenth Adventure | 13:37 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Eighteenth Adventure | 5:19 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Nineteenth Adventure | 10:09 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twentieth Adventure | 28:50 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-first Adventure | 9:12 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-second Adventure | 10:22 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-third Adventure | 7:09 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-fourth Adventure | 16:19 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-fifth Adventure | 17:19 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-sixth Adventure | 12:01 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-seventh Adventure | 12:57 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-eighth Adventure | 8:06 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Twenty-ninth Adventure | 11:24 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirtieth Adventure | 6:05 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-first Adventure | 14:58 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-second Adventure | 5:42 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-third Adventure | 10:56 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-fourth Adventure | 4:13 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-fifth Adventure | 9:25 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-sixth Adventure | 10:44 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-seventh Adventure | 18:05 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-eighth Adventure | 15:43 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Thirty-ninth Adventure | 10:27 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Reviews
Appears to be in short stanzas or couplets
A LibriVox Listener
Text should be accomanied by a college beginning level analysis of the poetic structure for novices.