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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Nibelungenlied

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies
Critical Editions
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Manuscripts and Facsimiles
Secondary Sources
Websites

Websites

Das Nibelungenlied
BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA

Includes transcriptions of Manuscripts A, B, and C as well as line by line commentary and other secondary materials.
Nibelungenlied Gesellschaft
Online Medieval and Classical Library
"The Nibelungenlied", translated by Daniel B. Shumway (Houghton- Mifflin Co., New York, 1909)
Creating Germany's National Myth: The Nibelungenlied and its Homerian Context
This site was produced to complement an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, from 7 November 2007 - 9 January 2008.

Bibliographies

Das Nibelungenlied und seine Literatur; eine Bibliographie und vier Abhandlungen. by Theodor Abeling
Call Number: PT1589 .A2 1970
Nibelungenlied und Nibelungensage: Kommentierte Bibliographie 1945-2010 by Florian Kragl
ISBN: 978-3050058429

Manuscript B

St. Gall. Stiftsbibliothek. Codex Sang. 857, Strophen 2014 - 2030

Manuscripts and Facsimiles

Staatsbiblothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin Mgf. 855, f. 154v

Handschriften und Frühdrucke mittelhochdeutscher Epen : Eneide, Tristrant, Tristan, Erec, Iwein, Parzival, Willehalm, Jüngerer Titurel, Nibelungenlied u. ihre Reproduktion u. Rezeption im späteren Mittelalter u. in d. frühen Neuzeit by Peter Jörg Becker
Call Number: PT202 .B4 1977

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Das Nibelungenlied; a complete transcription in modern German type of the text of manuscript C from the Fürstenberg Court Library, Donaueschingen by Heinz Engels(Editor)
Call Number: PT1575 .A1c 1969
Das Nibelungenlied und die Klage (Leithandschrift A) - BSB Cgm 34,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Das Nibelungenlied und die Klage, Handschrift D - BSB Cgm 31
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
'Nibelungenlied' by Handschriftencensus
Links to Codices, fragments and sonstiges.

Secondary Sources

Heroic Legends of the North: an introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich cycles by Edward R. Haymes; Susann T. Samples
Call Number: PT204 .H38 1996
The Nibelungenlied : history and interpretation by Edward R. Haymes
Call Number: PT1589 .H3 1986
The Nibelungenlied; a literary analysis. by Hugo Bekker
Call Number: PT1589 .B36
The nibelungenlied: an interpretative commentary by D.G. Mowatt and Hugh Sacker
Call Number: PT1589 .M6
Das Nibelungenlied: Problem und Idee. by Gottfried Weber
Call Number: PT1589 .W4
Studien zum Nibelungenlied; Vorausdeutungen, Aufbau, Motivierug. by Burghart Wachinger
Call Number: PT1589 .W3
Nibelungensage und Nibelungenlied : die Stoffgeschichte des deutschen Heldenepos by Andreas Heusler
Call Number: PT1589 .H4 1955
Das Nibelungenlied in den Illustrationen der Hundeshagenschen Handschrift MS. germ. fol. 885 by Daniel Schygulla
ISBN: 3638916146

Critical Editions

The Nibelungenlied by William Nanson Lettsom (Translator)
Call Number: PT1579.A3 L4 1977
The Nibelungenlied by Cyril Edwards (Translator)
ISBN: 9780199238545
Das Nibelungenlied by Burton Raffel (Translator)
ISBN: 9780300113204
Nibelungenlied. Mittelhochdeutsch / Neuhochdeutsch by Siegfried Gosse; Karl Bartsch; Helmut De Boor
ISBN: 3150006449

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

The Nibelungen Tradition by Werner Wunderlich (Editor); Frank Gentry (Editor); Ulrich Mueller (Editor); Winder McConnell (Editor)
Call Number: PT1589 .N53 2002
A Companion to the Nibelungenlied by Winder McConnell (Editor)
Call Number: PT1589 .C66 1998