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The Nibelungenlied

1200

Canon spine row 36. The Nibelungenlied. Era: c. 1200. Lang: Middle High German.

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What this book knows

Feudal honor, erotic rivalry, and blood loyalty collide until vengeance consumes everyone who survives the original betrayal.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Absent
Religion: Present

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Never shall be measured against me in fight thy hand. I am a king's son equal unto thee.
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Thyself have I heard also high praised for knightly worth; 'tis said a nobler monarch ne'er lived in all the earth.
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His feet and his hands also together bound she all, unto a nail she bore him and hung him on the wall.
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Siegfried there laid him by the maid full near… royal Gunther joyous alike and sad.
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grief

That as their very own they felt the wrong he suffered, by the courteous knights and brave was shown.
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Still were they unbetrayed by reeking blood and red, until the sun in heaven its shining beams down shed.
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