| LC control no. | n 79109760 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Nibelungenlied |
| Variant(s) | Nibelunge Nôt Nibelunge Liet |
| Found in | Wikipedia, Nov. 28, 2007 (The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German; there are thirty-five known manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied and its variant versions; the title under which the poem has been known since its discovery is derived from the final line of one of the three main versions, "hie hât daz mære ein ende: daz ist der Nibelunge liet" ("here the story takes an end: this is the lay of the Nibelungs"). Liet here means lay, tale or epic rather than simply song, as it would in Modern German. Philologists and literary scholars usually designate three main genealogical groups for the entire range of available manuscripts, with two primary versions comprising the oldest known copies: *AB and *C. This categorization derives from the signatures on the *A, *B, and *C manuscripts as well as the wording of the last verse in each source: "daz ist der Nibelunge liet" or "daz ist der Nibelunge nôt") Encyc. Britannica online, Nov. 28, 2007 (Nibelungenlied. Middle High German epic poem written about 1200 by an unknown Austrian from the Danube region. It is preserved in three main 13th-century manuscripts, A (now in Munich), B (St. Gall), and C (Donaueschingen); modern scholarship regards B as the most trustworthy. An early Middle High German title of the work is Der Nibelunge Not ("The Nibelung Distress"), from the last line of the poem. The superscription on one of the manuscripts from the early 14th century is "The Book of Kriemhild") |
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