TVTropes: Nibelungenlied

So, I’ve been amusing myself with reading the TVTropes discussion of the Nibelungenlied. It was fun. XD It’s very obvious the commentary is written by Americans, which makes it a meta-meta-meta thing of How Americans React To Old German Poetry. (It says more about contemporary US culture than about the Nibelungenlied itself!) It’s fascinating, surprising, and occasionally quite funny.

My sources are the pages
YMMV / Nibelungenlied and
Literature / Nibelungenlied
accessed today, Jan. 4, 2021

These interpretations are fascinating. I’ll put the TVtropes quotes in quotation marks. I’m putting my fandom ramblings behind cuts so you can happily ignore them if you’re not into medieval poetry. :D Also: contains spoilers.

( YMMV Nibelungenlied )

( Literature Nibelungenlied )