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Title: The Nibelungenlied
Translator: G. H. Needler
Release date: January 1, 2005 [eBook #7321]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2015
Language: English
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_Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original_
By
George Henry Needler
_Associate Professor of German in University College, Toronto_
PREFACE
This translation of the Nibelungenlied is published with the simple purpose of placing one of the world's great epic poems within the reach of English readers. Translations are at best but poor substitutes for originals. A new translation of a poem implies also a criticism of those that have preceded it. My apology for presenting…