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Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages

by Wilhelm WÄGNER (1800 - 1886)

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This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung and Kindred Legends; Dietrich of Bern's Adventures; the Nibelung Legends; the Hegeling Legends; and Beowulf. To them, the author has added the great mythical Carolingian cycle, which centred round the persons of Charlemagne and his heroes, and the Breton ones of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, as well as the legend of the Holy Grail. Therefore, this one book tells all of the great epic and romances of the Middle Ages in accessible language for the general public. (Summary by Leni)

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Listen next episodes of Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages:
Battle and Victory , Beowulf is made King , Beowulf, the Bold Diver , Grendel , Gudrun , Hagen , Hettel the Hegeling and his Heroes , King Etzel’s Wooing , Legend of Tannhäuser , Lohengrin , Percival , Queen Gerlind , Roland , Siegfried in Burgundy , Siegfried’s Youth , The Burgundians Visit Hunland , The Children of Haymon, part 1 , The Children of Haymon, part 2 , The Dragonstone , The Fight with the Dragon , The Nibelungs’ Lament , The She-wolf of the Sea , The Wooing of Brunhild , Titurel , Treason and Death , Tristram and Isolde , William of Orange