Jim Staack

Revenge: Part Two of the Nibelungenlied, an Epic of the Dark Ages Jim Staack

Part Two of the Nibelungenlied, Jim Staack's translation in prose form. Read of the first superheroes. A story first told in song over a thousand years ago, written in the 13th century and now retold in the 21st. The bitter revenge Kriemhilt, now Queen of the Huns, takes on her brothers to make them pay for the murder of her first husband, Sivrit the dragon slayer. A tale of battles, blood and bravery. Read of the first superheroes of literature, the three kings, Gunther, Giselher and Gernot, their protector, the one eyed Hagene the horrible and his fighting companion, Volker, the fiddler. How they traveled to the palace city of Etzel (Attila the Hun), invited to a festival that turns into a blood fest.