The Fall of the Niebelungers: Otherwise the Book of the Kriemhild; A Translation of the Nibelunge Nôt, or Nibelungenlied. Translated by William Nanson Lettsom.
London: Williams and Norgate, Henrietta Street, Covent Gareden; James Bain, Haymarket, 1850.
Price: $250.00
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The Second translation of this classic into English. Printed by G. Norman, Printer, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. 447 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarters green morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Very good/Fine. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge.
Item #7439
This translation of this most famous Thirteenth-Century Epic German poem into English is preceded only by Jonathon Birch's published only two years earlier. The preface discusses how obscure the poem is to English audiences.
