ASIN: B0040JHR8A
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 388
Revenge is Jim Staack's interpretation, in prose form, of the second and final part of the Germanic epic poem, Das Nibelungenlied. Many tales told and sung by minstrels a thousand years ago were assembled and first written in the 13th century and now-- in Revenge--- they are retold in the 21st. The lovely princess, Kriemhilt, whose husband, Sivrit the dragon slayer, was deceitfully murdered in part one of the tale, Staack's Love and Death, seeks her retribution in Revenge. Years have passed and Kriemhilt still mourns the loss of her husband. One day an emissary arrives in Burgondenlant, the nobleman, Reudiger, who has come on behalf of the powerful Etzel (Attila) the ruler of the Huns and a great empire which includes Burgondenlant. Etzel's queen has died and he seeks the still strikingly beautiful Kriemhilt as his bride. Under Reudiger's guidance and influence, she ultimately ...
