Description

Hardcover, black cloth in publisher’s purple dust-jacket. 307 pages. Bibliography, Index. First edition. Providing the necessary background for an informed reading of the Nibelungenlied, the book is divided into three parts: literary antecedents, literary analysis discussing literary context as well as possible sources and narrative innovations, and previously untranslated texts and summaries of source materials bearing on the poem. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Dust-jacket shows moderate shelf wear but is intact with no tears or chips. Fine in a good dust-jacket.