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Description The Nibelungenlied was Germanyβs first heroic epic put into writing. Thomas Carlyle considered it βa precious national possession, recovered after six centuries of neglect, [which] takes undisputed place among the sacred books of German literature.β Due to a lack of interest in copying the manuscripts, the work was forgotten, only faintly remembered as an influence in other German writing. Today, a total of 36 manuscripts have been unearthed. Many of these are only poem fragments,
Description The Nibelungenlied was Germanyβs first heroic epic put into writing. Thomas Carlyle considered it βa precious national possession, recovered after six centuries of neglect, [which] takes undisputed place among the sacred books of German literature.β Due to a lack of interest in copying the manuscripts, the work was forgotten, only faintly remembered as an influence in other German writing. Today, a total of 36 manuscripts have been unearthed. Many of these are only poem fragments,