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Das Nibelungenlied [The Song of the Nibelungs] (c. 13th century)
Anonymous · c. 13th century
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Documented 1845
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“See the Nibelungen Lays.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Footnote explicitly says 'See the Nibelungen Lays' for Brunhilda. Footnote explicitly cites 'the Nibelungen Lays' for the Brunhilda narrative.
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“Twenty Lays from the Nibelungen restored in conformity with the intimations of Lachmann”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred The Nibelungenlied is the medieval German epic underlying Simrock's translation; Fuller's notes discuss it as 'the Nibelungen' — the tradition is known; the title is identified through Simrock's notes.