Cyril Edwards

Broschiertes Buch

The Nibelungenlied

The Lay of the Nibelungs

Übersetzung: Edwards, Cyril

Beschreibung

The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem, a revenge saga on an epic scale, which tells how dragon-slayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs, and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen. This is the first prose translation for over forty years, with full introductory materials.

Autor

Cyril Edwards is a Lecturer in German at St Peter's College, Oxforrd, a Senior Research Fellow of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College London. He has published widely on the medieval lyric, Old High German, and the supernatural in medieval literature. His translations include Parzival and Titurel for Oxford World's Classics and Hartmann von Aue's Iwein or the Knight with the Lion.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9780199238545
• ISBN-10: 0199238545
• Artikelnr.: 27373543