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This encyclopedia brings together in one volume all of the literary and extra-literary references pertinent to the Nibelungen tradition.

Utilizing both literary and extra-literary sources, the study considers all documented references to the Wate figure in the Middle Ages. Subsequent to a critical evaluation of research done on the figure in the years 1826-1974, an analysis is undertaken of Wate's role in prominent literary works of medieval Germany (e.g. Alexanderlied, Dietrichs Flucht), Scandinavia (The Thidrekssaga), and England. The examination of his function within the li...

Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has stirred the imagination of artists and readers far beyond its land of origin. Its international influence extends from literature to music, art, film, politics and propaganda, psychology, archeology, and military history.Now for the first time all references to the vast Nibelungen tradition have been catalogued in this c...

Contains prose translation with scholarly apparatus, of German epic c 1230 that is comparable with Nibelungenlied.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.