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The Fall of the Nibelungs

The Fall of the Nibelungs

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Number of Chapters: 39

Length: 07 hours and 41 minutes

Language: English

"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the destruction of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, in 436 by mercenary Huns recruited for the task by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius. The introduction to the 1908 edition summarizes the story, "And so 'the discord of two women,' to quote Carlyle, 'is as a little spark of evil passion, which ere long enlarges itself into a crime; foul murder is done; and now the sin rolls on like a devouring fire, till the guilty and the innocent are alike encircled with it, and a whole land is ashes, and a whole race is swept away.'", a story not for the faint of heart. Summary by Phil Schempf.

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First Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Second Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Third Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Fourth Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Fifth Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Sixth Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Seventh Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Eighth Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Ninth Adventure (Michael Wolf)
Tenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Eleventh Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twelfth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirteenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Fourteenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Fifthteenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Sixteenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Seventeenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Eighteenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Nineteenth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twentieth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-first Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-second Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-third Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-fourth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-fifth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-sixth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-seventh Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-eighth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Twenty-ninth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirtieth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-first Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-second Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-third Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-fourth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-fifth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-sixth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-seventh Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-eighth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
Thirty-ninth Adventure (Phil Schempf)
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