The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife Kriemhild's revenge.

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Adventure I: Kriemhilda

Adventure II: Siegfried

Adventure III: How Siegfried Came to Worms

Adventure IV: How Siegfried Fought the Saxons

Adventure V: How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhilda

Adventure VI: How Gunther Went to Iceland After Brunhilda

Adventure VII: How Gunther Won Brunhilda

Adventure VIII: How Siegfried Went to Fetch the Nibelungs

Adventure IX: How Siegfried Was Sent to Worms

Adventure X: How Brunhilda Was Received at Worms

Adventure XI: How Siegfried Went Home with His Wife

Adventure XII: How Gunther Bade Siegfried to the Festival

Adventure XIII: How They Journeyed to the Festival

Adventure XIV: How the Queens Railed at One Another

Adventure XV: How Siegfried Was Betrayed

Adventure XVI: How Siegfried Was Slain

Adventure XVII: How Kriemhilda Mourn’d for Her Husband, and How He Was Buried

Adventure XVIII: How Siegmund Went Back to His Own Land

Adventure XIX: How the Nibelung Hoard Was Brought to Worms

Adventure XX: How King Etzel Sent to Burgundy After Kriemhilda

Adventure XXI: How Kriemhilda Went to the Huns

Adventure XXII: How Etzel Espoused Kriemhilda

Adventure XXIII: How Kriemhilda Thought to Avenge Her Injury

Adventure XXIV: How Werbel and Schwemmel Did Their Errand

Adventure XXV: How the Lords All Went to the Huns

Adventure XXVI: How Gelfrat Was Slain by Dankwart

Adventure XXVII: How They Came to Bechelaren

Adventure XXVIII: How the Burgundians Came to Etzel’s Stronghold

Adventure XXIX: How He Stood Not Up Before Her

Adventure XXX: How They Kept Watch and Ward

Adventure XXXI: How They Went to Church

Adventure XXXII: How Bloedelin Was Slain

Adventure XXXIII: How the Burgundians Fought with the Huns

Adventure XXXIV: How They Cast Forth the Dead

Adventure XXXV: How Iring Was Slain

Adventure XXXVI: How the Queen Bade That the Hall Be Set on Fire

Adventure XXXVII: How the Margrave Rüdeger Was Slain

Adventure XXXVIII: How Lord Dietrich’s Warriors All Were Slain

Adventure XXXIX: How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhilda Were Slain

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