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Article: Die Nibelungen zogen nach Danemark: Eine Neuinterpretation der Erzahlung 'Von Hven zwischen Seeland und Schonen'.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Die Nibelungen zogen nach Danemark: Eine Neuinterpretation der Erzahlung 'Von Hven zwischen Seeland and Schonen'. By PETER HVILSHOJ ANDERSEN. (Bremer Beitrage zur Literatur-and Ideengeschichte, 48) Bern: Peter Lang. 2007. 443 pp. 68.50 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-631-56118-8.
Unravelling the tangled narrative strands of the Nibelungen tradition has long been a favourite sport of scholars. This is a remarkable book, a brave and enthusiastic attempt to rekindle interest in and rehabilitate the so-called Hven Chronicle, a short Danish prose narrative dating from 1603, which as long ago as 1889 Wolfgang Golther dismissed as 'ein danisches gelehrtes Machwerk'. This remark has ...