Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Previous owner’s sticker inside.
Cover art: The cover shows a detail from the Hundeshagen Codex, the only surviving Nibelungen manuscript with illustrations (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
Blurb: “TRANSLATED BY A. T. HATTO
Composed nearly eight hundred years ago by an unnamed poet, The Nibelungenlied is the principal literary expression of those heroic legends of which Richard Wagner made such free use in The Ring. This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with peculiar strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther and Brunhild, the quarrel between the two queens, Hagen's treacherous murder of Siegfried, and Kriemhild's eventual revenge. A. T.
Hatto's new translation transforms an old text into a story as readable and exciting as Homer's Iliad.”