Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

LibriVox · Audiobook · 42 episodes

The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Librivox recording of the Shumway prose translation, but none for the verse. - Summary by Kurt Papke

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Episodes

Preface

Episode 0 · 1:40
The Nibelungen Saga

Episode 1 · 42:50
The Nibelungenlied

Episode 2 · 36:36
Kriemhild's Dream

Episode 3 · 7:03
Siegfried

Episode 4 · 8:24
How Siegfried came to Worms

Episode 5 · 32:54
How Siegfried fought with the Saxons

Episode 6 · 43:25
How Siegfried first saw Kriemhild

Episode 7 · 20:45
How Gunther fared to Isenland to Brunhild

Episode 8 · 21:42
How Gunther won Brunhild

Episode 9 · 31:23
How Siegfried fared to his knights

Episode 10 · 15:27
How Siegfried was sent to Worms

Episode 11 · 15:43
How Brunhild was received at Worms

Episode 12 · 33:59
How Siegfried came home with his wife

Episode 13 · 10:55
How Gunther bade Siegfried to the feast

Episode 14 · 16:29
How they fared to the feast

Episode 15 · 11:54
How the queens berated each other

Episode 16 · 20:24
How Siegfried was betrayed

Episode 17 · 12:44
How Siegfried was slain

Episode 18 · 26:33
How Kriemhild mourned for Siegfried

Episode 19 · 23:01
How Sigmund fared home again

Episode 20 · 9:00
How the Nibelungen hoard was brought to Worms

Episode 21 · 13:33
How King Etzel sent for Kriemhild

Episode 22 · 44:54
How Kriemhild fared to the Huns

Episode 23 · 14:40
How Etzel kept the wedding feast

Episode 24 · 15:53
How Kriemhild thought to avenge her wrong

Episode 25 · 11:11
How Werbel and Schwemmel brought the message

Episode 26 · 25:49
How the knights all fared to the Huns

Episode 27 · 24:26
How Gelfrat was slain by Dankwart

Episode 28 · 19:48
How they came to Bechelaren

Episode 29 · 20:41
How the Burgundians came to Etzel's castle

Episode 30 · 12:59
How he arose not before her

Episode 31 · 19:02
How they kept guard

Episode 32 · 10:02
How they went to mass

Episode 33 · 22:26
How Bloedel was slain

Episode 34 · 9:52
How the Burgundians fought with the Huns

Episode 35 · 18:10
How they cast out the dead

Episode 36 · 6:27
How Iring was slain

Episode 37 · 16:40
How the queen bade set fire to the hall

Episode 38 · 17:01
How the margrave Ruediger was slain

Episode 39 · 31:18
How all Sir Dietrich's knights were slain

Episode 40 · 28:02
How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild were slain

Episode 41 · 18:33