"Nibelungenlied" Quotes from Famous Books
... begins to speak at once in modern blank verse of ten syllables, such as we know in Milton and Shakespeare and Schiller. One might have expected him to speak in some earlier romantic measure, to have used perhaps the metre of the old Nibelungenlied, as in ... — The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' • H. B. Cotterill |