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Article: The Nibelungen Tradition.(Book Review)
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- Folklore
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- April 1, 2005
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The Nibelungen Tradition. An Encyclopedia. Edited by Francis G. Gentry, Winder McConnell, Ulrich Muller and Werner Wunderlich. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xxvii +375 pp. 85.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-8153-1785-9
Encyclopaedic coverage of a tradition necessarily involves disparate categories, and the editors of The Nibelungen Tradition have acknowledged this by dividing their material into ten parts: I Primary Works; IF Personal and Place Names; III Themes, Motifs, Objects and Key Words; IV Manuscript Collections and Literary/Historical Analogues; V Scholarship; VI The Literary Reception of the Nibelungen Theme in Germany, Austria and ...