Nibelungenlied : title of a Middle High German epic written c. 1200 by an unknown Austrian. Nibclungen, an evil family possesses a magic hoard of accursed gold.
... that there might have been no poetical literature at all. The Teutonic nations have in this field been conspicuous by their silence or the rarity of their speech. After the old rude epics, saga or Nibelungenlied, we have to wait till quite recent times for poetic utterance, nor, when it came, was it rich or abundant. In Germany, so rich in music, in philosophy, in science, the great poetic word has burst ...
... epic cast. In Greek of course Homer, in Latin Virgil. There are other poems which attempt the epic style, but are not among the masterpieces. There are also primitive epics in German and Finnish (Nibelungenlied, Kalevala)— Our vaccination list is ready. Will send a duplicate to Mother tomorrow, before submitting it to the hospital. You will send a copy to Pavitra, for he will have to write to ...
... Cervantes we seem to have exhausted all that need interest the student of humanity in Spanish literature. Similar instances offer themselves in the Sagas of the Scandinavian peoples and Germany's Nibelungenlied, in the extraordinary picture of Mahomedan civilisation of which the Thousand & One Nights are the setting. On the other hand there are literatures of high quality and world-wide interest which ...
... n long ago, but it gave no idea at all of the poetic qualities of the original. As for gaps in the culture—well, I don't know Russian or Finnish (missing the Kalevala ) and have not read the Nibelungenlied in the original, nor for that matter Pentaur's poem on the conquests of Rameses in ancient Egyptian or at least the fragment of it that survives. I don't know Arabic either but I don't mind that ...
... epic cast. In Greek of course Homer, in Latin Virgil. There are other poems which attempt the epic style, but are not among the masterpieces. There are also primitive epics in German and Finnish (Nibelungenlied, Kalevala)— 4 May 1937 This afternoon, in a kind of sleep, I read a whole passage of an epic in English. All fled like vapour on waking up. I caught only this: This is only part ...
... indeed noble and melodious,—though the incorrect method of writing them established by the old Indian scholars, often conceals their harmonious construction,—but no other praise can be given. The Nibelungenlied, the Icelandic Sagas, the Kalewala, the Homeric poems, were written in the dawn of civilisation by semi-barbarous races, by poets not superior in culture to the Vedic Rishis; yet though their poetical ...
... “Norse”, probably Icelandic; Siegfried came from Xanten, in the present-day Netherlands; the good king Gunther and his knights were Burgundians; and Kriemhild married Attila the Hun. Nevertheless, the Nibelungen Treue , the legendary loyalty of the Nibelungs, would become the highest praised of German virtues, and Himmler had it embroidered on the sleeves of his SS: Meine Ehre heisst Treue , loyalty is ...
... Burgundians, and that the primary SS slogan, embroidered on the sleeve of their uniforms, was Meine Ehre heisst Treue , faithfulness is my honour, inspired by the Nibelungs’ legendary fealty, the Nibelungen Treue. The freedom with which Himmler and his henchmen could act out their fantasies of past, present and future greatness is amazing; it demonstrates the extent to which Nazi Germany had become ...
... Hasi or Uma Bose (22.1.1921-22.1.1942): A 'lovely singer', sang like a nightingale. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-83). Celebrated German composer of operas: "The Ring of the Nibelungen', Tristan and Isolde7, 'Parsifal', etc. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco (1813-1901), Italian composer of operas and church music. AK Fazlul Huq. (1873-1962), statesman, public ...
... and throttling, the whole aestheticization of violent death culminating in the intoxication of grandiose disasters, now underwent unlimited extension in an ignorantly blissful shudder before the Nibelungen and the Last of the Goths, before the Lost Warrior Bands of the Middle Ages, before Langemarck, Koltschak and the samurai ideal … All this was not merely the expression of a historicizing hero-worship ...
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