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COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Illinois Press
Translated by Winder McConnell. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture: Medieval Texts and Translations.) Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 219. $55.95.
This is the first English translation of Div Chlage and, as such, recovers an important text for non-Germanist medievalists. This noncanonical text is important not only because it contributes to our knowledge of tile tradition of heroic epic in Germany against which the medieval masterpieces must be measured, but also because of its uniqueness in being the first extant commentary on one of those masterpieces, the Nibelungenlied. It is, in fact, a revisionist interpretation of the character of Kriemhilde and the tragedy of...
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