The Nibelungenlied
by Anonymous
411 pages~7 hrs
“Honor is bought in blood, and revenge knows no end.”
Witness the brutal foundations of Germanic legend in an epic saga where dragon-slayers and devious queens collide through secrets and steel. When the invincible Siegfried is betrayed, his widow Kriemhild orchestrates a chilling, decade-spanning masterplan for revenge that threatens to burn entire kingdoms to the ground.
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