Germanic heroic legend and its later literary reception: Nibelung story, Rhine legend, dragon-hoard memory, doom, revenge, and Wagnerian afterlife.
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Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine — Lewis Spence — Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine — Lewis Spence's 1915 survey: the mythology and folklore of the Rhine valley — the Nibelung legend, Charlemagne and Roland, the Lorelei, the Bishop and the Rats, Faust, the Wandering Jew, and the legendary history of the great river from source to sea.
The Nibelungenlied — Daniel Shumway — The Nibelungenlied, the great Middle High German epic of Siegfried, Kriemhild, and the fall of the Burgundians — translated by Daniel B. Shumway (1909).
The Ring of the Nibelung — Richard Wagner — The Ring of the Nibelung — Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle rendered as prose narrative by Margaret Armour (1910): Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung — the complete Ring Cycle from the theft of the gold to the fall of Valhalla.