The Fall of the Nibelungs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fall of the Nibelungs, credited to Unknown, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Fall of the Nibelungs by Unknown. (Translated by Margaret Armour.) Read in English by Michael Wolf and Phil Schempf. "The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the destruction of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, in 436 by mercenary Huns recruited for the task by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius. The introduction to the 1908 edition summarizes the story, "And so 'the discord of two women,' to quote Carlyle, 'is as a little spark of evil passion, which ere long enlarges itself into a crime; foul murder is done; and now the sin rolls on like a devouring fire, till the guilty and the innocent are alike encircled with it, and a whole land is ashes, and a whole race is swept away.'", a story not for the faint of heart. Summary by Phil Schempf.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fall of the Nibelungs
• Author credits: Unknown
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 7:41:11

Catalogue topics

• German
• Legend
• medieval
• prose translation of epic poem
• siegfried
• dragon
• germanic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - First Adventure — 4:23
2. 02 - Second Adventure — 5:16
3. 03 - Third Adventure — 18:19
4. 04 - Fourth Adventure — 24:17
5. 05 - Fifth Adventure — 11:29
6. 06 - Sixth Adventure — 13:26
7. 07 - Seventh Adventure — 17:10
8. 08 - Eighth Adventure — 9:38
9. 09 - Ninth Adventure — 9:13
10. 10 - Tenth Adventure — 20:05
11. 11 - Eleventh Adventure — 6:32
12. 12 - Twelfth Adventure — 10:04
13. 13 - Thirteenth Adventure — 6:58
14. 14 - Fourteenth Adventure — 11:35
15. 15 - Fifthteenth Adventure — 7:46
16. 16 - Sixteenth Adventure — 15:58
17. 17 - Seventeenth Adventure — 13:37
18. 18 - Eighteenth Adventure — 5:19
19. 19 - Nineteenth Adventure — 10:09
20. 20 - Twentieth Adventure — 28:50
21. 21 - Twenty-first Adventure — 9:12
22. 22 - Twenty-second Adventure — 10:22
23. 23 - Twenty-third Adventure — 7:09
24. 24 - Twenty-fourth Adventure — 16:19

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