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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
Two mermaids can be seen floating along a rocky shore, one of them addressing Hagen, who stands on a slope and holds onto a branch to keep his balance.
The caption reads in the original German:
Ich will dich warnen, Hagen,
[…]
Kommst du zu den Heunen,
So bist du arg sehr betrogen.
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, mermaid, mythology, seafront, warrior
