Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages
FRONTISPIECE.
Epics and Romances
Of the Middle Ages.
ADAPTED FROM THE WORK OF
DR. W. WÄGNER
M. W. MACDOWALL,
AND EDITED BY
W. S. W. ANSON,
Editor of Dr. Wägner’s “Asgard and the Gods: the Tales and Traditions of
our Northern Ancestors.”
SECOND EDITION.
Wilhelm Wägner
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INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS.
LANGOBARDIAN LEGENDS.
THE AMELUNGS.
III. DIETWART.
I. DIETRICH AND HILDEBRAND.
IV. DIETRICH, THE FAITHFUL ALLY.
VI. KING ETZEL, WALTER OF WASGENSTEIN, AND HILDEGUNDE.
VII. ETZEL AND DIETRICH AGAINST THE REUSSEN.
VIII. THE RAVEN-FIGHT (BATTLE OF RAVENNA).
IX. GOING HOME.
II. SIEGFRIED IN BURGUNDY.
III. THE DRAGONSTONE.
IV. THE WOOING OF BRUNHILD
V. TREASON AND DEATH.
II. THE BURGUNDIANS VISIT HUNLAND.
III. THE NIBELUNGS’ LAMENT.
II. HETTEL THE HEGELING AND HIS HEROES.
III. GUDRÛN.
IV. QUEEN GERLIND.
V. BATTLE AND VICTORY.
II. Beowulf, the Bold Diver.
III. The She-wolf of the Sea.
IV. Beowulf is made King.
V. The Fight with the Dragon.
PART THIRD.
II. ROLAND.
III. WILLIAM OF ORANGE.
IV. TRISTRAM AND ISOLDE.
Tannhäuser in Trouble.
INDEX.
