Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Middle High German epic poem written in the early 1200s and based on the legends of Siegfried and of the Burgundian kings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called
Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings
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Examples
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Our Nibelungenlied, which is the chief source of our knowledge of the story as it developed in
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Like Wagner's Ring cycle, "Die Nibelungen" is inspired by the medieval "Nibelungenlied," or "Song of the Nibelungs," an epic poem about the murder of dragon-slaying hero Siegfried.
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He thought that in this particular episode, "the titanic conditions and occurrences of the 'Nibelungenlied'" and other pro-mediaeval legends had "been reduced to human dimensions."
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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He thought that in this particular episode, "the titanic conditions and occurrences of the 'Nibelungenlied'" and other pro-mediaeval legends had "been reduced to human dimensions."
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Norse, or by a large body of water, as in the "Nibelungenlied".
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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The dwarf legend is the more southern; it is told in detail in the "Nibelungenlied".
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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"Nibelungenlied" are unknown; but the work remains to us as the greatest epic of Germany.
Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson
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In the "Nibelungenlied" it becomes the real cause of Siegfried's death, for Brunhild plans to kill
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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The quarrel of the two queens is likewise very differently depicted in the "Nibelungenlied" from what it is in the Norse version.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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There are perhaps greater poems in literature than the "Nibelungenlied", but few so majestic in conception, so sublime in their tragedy, so simple in their execution, and so national in their character, as this great popular epic of German literature.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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