ASIN: B003ZSIAT2
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 356
Love and Death is Jim Staack's translation and interpretation, in prose form, of the first part of the classic Germanic epic poem, Das Nibelungenlied. Love and Death is a story of love, of how Sivrit, the legendary dragon slayer, wins his bride, Kriemhilt, the beautiful princess of Burgondenlant and how Gunther, king of Burgonden wins his bride, Prunhilt, the wonderful queen of Icelant. It is a story of friendship and valor, of how Sivrit and Gunther become friends and how Sivrit helps Gunther on the battlefield and in his wooing of Prunhilt. It is a story of jealousy, of Prunhilt's jealousy of Kriemhilt, and the jealousy of Hagene, Gunther closest aide, of Sivrit. Finally, it is a story of betrayal, of how a fight between Kriemhilt and Prunhilt leads to the murder of Sivrit at that hands of Gunther and Hagene. It is a story of love and death. But much more --- it is a window ...
