Nibelungenlied

(3 stars)

Charlemagne_742

This is a very interesting tale, yet many of the readers need to give up reading for Librivox. Others were exceedingly fine readers whom I appreciate very much.

First Time Listener

(5 stars)

azura

All of the audio was crisp and easily understood. This translation is also great because there are footnotes which provide much welcome context.

Not As Good As the Volsungasaga

(3 stars)

Graham Widmer

The readers were all pretty good, but the story was really tedious. I swear that instead of ten hours this was thirty hours, each chapter getting longer. This tells of some of the same events of the Volsungasaga, but not before or after, and it's still the same length. I agree with another reviewer that it also destroys the suspension of disbelief when a single hero can slay nine thousand warriors on his own and not even be wounded. All in all...it was okay.

Good narration but Sad story.

(4 stars)

WIbartender

good but completely aggravating as nothing ever goes well for anyone. this is a tragedy in every way possible. Spoiler alert:everyone dies for stupid and unjust reasons. thousands are murdered and kingdoms are destroyed for literally no other reason than two queens were b@$!#s to each other. also the villian Hagen for no reason other than the plot demands it. In the second half he kills thousands of knights without a scratch or even being winded then stays up for days on guard duty. all the while murdering thousands more. I say this is impossible and ruins the story. this is a sad, sick, and twisted story with no happy ending for anyone

(4.5 stars)

donald H

Good chivalric German Literature, but not nearly as epic in scope as the later Wagnerian derivative. Definitely worth a listen