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Artist
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Xylographic Institute of Kaspar Braun & von Dessauer
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Library of Congress, the Internet Archive
- Observations:
- Artist is Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld or Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
Book
- Title:
- Der Nibelungen Noth
- Author(s):
- Pfizer, Gustav (revision of the text)
- Publisher:
- Stuttgart, Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’scher Verlag, 1843
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Hagen and Kriemhild, who is still holding a sword, lie dead in a palace hall as the people around lament their deaths. Above the main motif, a smaller illustration refers to a related episode. Below it, a speech scroll held by two mermaids bears the epilogue, which reads in the original Middle High German:
Ich enkan iu niht bescheiden
Was sider da geschach:
Wan riter unde vrouwen
Weinen man da sach
Dar zuo die edeln knehte,
Ir lieben friunde tot.
Hie hat das mær ein ende: ditze ist der Nibelunge not.
The caption in English was taken from Daniel Bussier Shumway’s translation of The Nibelungenlied published in Boston & New York by the Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, black & white, death, mermaid, mixed genders, mythology, sword
