The Nibelungen tradition : an encyclopedia / edited by Francis G. Gentry [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.

Part I Primary Works 1 -- Part II Personal and Place Names 49 -- Part III Themes, Motifs, Objects, and Key Words 141 -- Part IV Manuscript Collections and Literary/Historical Analogues 181 -- Part V Scholarship 191 -- Part VI The Literary Reception of the Nibelungen Theme in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 229 -- Part VII The Literary Reception of the Nibelungen Theme in Non-German-Speaking Countries 267 -- Part VIII Music and Composers 277 -- Part IX Art, Artists, Film, Filmmakers, Sculpture, and Sculptors 285 -- Part X Miscellaneous: Historians, Clerics, Politics, the Military, Propaganda, Psychology, Education, Icongraphy, and Geography 305 -- Translations of the Nibelungenlied and the Klage Other than German 321.

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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 comprehensive encyclopedia containing nearly 1000 entries by several dozen international contributors, including the most distinguished s.

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