# The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition Author: Lettsom, William Nanson, 1796-1865 [Translator]; Carpenter, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1936 [Author of introduction, etc.] Genre: Category: Poetry Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38468 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Nibelungenlied+Revised+Edition+Lettsom&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The "Nibelungenlied," as the great national epic of Germany, is not only one of the most important literary monuments that the German mind has produced in all periods of its history, but, in reality beyond this, it is also in its matter and its manner one of the world's great classics. It is this inherently because of the universal intelligibility of its story, for the broad human sympathy which must be felt with its characters and their motives of action, and for the sustained poetic treatment of the whole in the long poem. In all these respects the "Nibelungenlied," although German in its spirit and its environment, rises inevitably above the confines of nationality, and becomes, like o... ## Chapters - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/21/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/25/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/26/index.md) - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/20/index.md) - [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/27/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/22/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/23/index.md) - [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/24/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/28/index.md) - [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/29/index.md) - [Part 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/30/index.md) - [Part 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nibelungenlied-revised-edition-38468/chapters/31/index.md)