The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the thirteenth century A.D., by an unknown hand. However, most of the material is based substantially on previous works, some centuries older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse
The Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied Originally written in Middle High German (M.H.G.), sometime around 1200 A.D., although this dating is by no means certain. Author unknown. The text of this edition is based on that published as “The Nibelungenlied”, translated by Daniel B. Shumway (Houghton- Mifflin Co., New York, 1909). This edition is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in