The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic
poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfried
at the court of the Burgundians. It may be considered as the worlds
first fantasy story. Heroes, dragons, treasures, sword fights and magic.
This is the prose version of the famous epic poem.
The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs (the
"Nibelungensaga"), which include oral traditions and reports based on
historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries. Old Norse
parallels of the legend survive in the Völsunga saga, the Prose Edda,
the Poetic Edda, the Legend of Norna-Gest, and the Þiðrekssaga.
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