Song of Nibelungs = Das NibelungenLied

“Song of Nibelungs” is one of the most famous epic works of world literature. The heroic epic, written by an unknown author at the beginning of the XIII century in the Middle Ages,

before the reader, a mythological, but reflecting historical events, the plot of the marriage of the Frankish warrior of Siegfried at the Burgundy Princess Crimhilda, about his death from the hands of brothers of brothers, unfolds. For the conflict of Crimhilds with the powerful Icelandic Queen Brunhild, about the revenge of Crimhilds with the help of the ruler of the Huns of Etzel to his fellow tribesmen for the murder of the beloved husband of Siegfried and, finally, about the search for the treasures of the Nibelungs drowned in the Rhine.

Courageous warriors and delightful women. Eternal love and inevitable death, noble loyalty and insidious betrayal, irreconcilable hatred and cruel bloodshed... The narrative of eternal values ​​that will not leave the reader indifferent.

“Song of the Nibelungs” consists of 39 Antenuers, each of which precedes Realistic and elegant illustrations of German artists Julius Gubner and Edward Bendeman. The art design is supplemented by drawings by the famous English illustrator Arthur Rekham.

The parallel text given in the book makes it especially cognitive and useful for studying the German language. The poetic translation into Russian, marked by the Pushkin Prize, belongs to the pen of M. I. Kudryashev.

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