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Article: The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopaedia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2003
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The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopaedia. Ed. by WINDER McCONNELL, FRANCIS G. GENTRY, ULRICH MULLER, and WERNER WUNDERLICH. New York and London: Routledge. 2002. xxvii+375 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8153-1785-9 (hbk).
In vain did the 'last poet' of the thirteenth-century Nibelungenlied subjoin a copyright interdict to the thirty-ninth aventiure as a charm against continuators ('hie hilt daz maere ein ende: daz ist der Nibelunge not'). Continuators of one stamp or another have, in a spirit of produktive Nachfolge, been trying to pen a fortieth aventiure (metaphorically speaking) from the thirteenth century (the Klage) down to the century of Hebbel and Wagner ...