Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and
reassessed. Few works of the middle ages can boast the `staying
power' of the 'heroic' Nibelungenlied and few have generated more
controversy both among scholars and the educated public. The
Nibelung theme has been ubiquitous over the past 150 years in a
wide spectrum of literary and as well as non-literary endeavors. It
was used by Friedrich Hebbel as the basis for one of his best
psychological dramas, by Wagner, along with the Old Norse
analogues, for Die Ring des Nibelungen, and by the film maker Fritz
Lang for his 1920s Expressionist masterpiece, Die Nibelungen. Its
heroes provided suitable models for German troops who marched
against Napoleon, while by the end of World War II, the Nibelung
tradition had provided material for a speech by Goering, the name
for Germany's western line of defense, and significantly, the
cuffband designation of the last 'division' formed in the elite
Combat SS. This Companion to the Nibelungenlied draws on the
expertise of scholars from German, Britain, and the United States
to offer the reader fresh perspectives on a wide variety of topics
regarding the epic: the latest theories regarding manuscript
tradition, authorship, conflict, combat, and politics, the
Otherworld and its inhabitants, eroticism (in both the
Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring), the reception both of the
Nibelungenlied in the twentieth century and of its most intriguing
protagonist, Kriemhild, key concepts used by the poet, the heroic,
feudal, and courtly elements in the work, and an analysis of
archetypal elements from the perspective of Jungian psychology.
Winder McConnell is Professor of German at the University of
California, Davis.
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