The Song of the Nibelungs
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Written around the year 1200 by an unknown Middle High German poet likely from the region of Passau, The song of the Nibelungs is divided into two major parts: the life and death of Sigfrid, his glory, fault, and betrayal, and the massive destruction of those who betrayed him, engineered by Kriemhild, Sigfrid's wife.
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