Kudrun

by Anonymous

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Kudrun is an heroic epic written around 1230 second in importance only to the Nibelungenlied; it is characterized by its greater focus on female characters and a tone gentler than that of the brutal Nibelungenlied. For his translation Professor McConnell has gone back to the sole (a later and problematic) existing manuscript, found in the Ambraser Handschrift in the holdings of the Austrian National Library at Vienna.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Anonymous	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Armour, Margaret	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Murdoch, B.O.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Neumann, Friedrich	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Sievers, Eduard	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Simrock, Karl	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
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Sowinski, Bernhard	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Sowinski, Bernhard	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Wolbe, Eugen	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Nibelungensage und Gudrunlied by Anonymous

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Kudrun is an heroic epic written around 1230 second in importance only to the Nibelungenlied; it is characterized by its greater focus on female characters and a tone gentler than that of the brutal Nibelungenlied. For his translation Professor McConnell has gone back to the sole (a later and problematic) existing manuscript, found in the Ambraser Handschrift in the holdings of the Austrian National Library at Vienna.

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