In the canon
The Nibelungenlied
Unknown
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 1200
- Originally in
- Originally in Middle high german
- Pages
- Pages 350
Siegfried rides into Worms with the dragon's blood still on him and asks for the hand of Kriemhild, who has dreamed of a falcon torn apart by eagles. An anonymous Austrian poet composed this Middle High German epic around 1200, gathering older Germanic legend into thirty-nine adventures of rhymed long-line stanzas.
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