Nibelungenlied

Siegfried

At first, I was not interested to know what the story of this "Nibelungenlied" is; I can't even pronounce that word before. I thought this short story would be like Mahabharata and Ramayana, two epics which are really long, I didn't even bother reading in details anymore because the list of characters is so hard to remember and the stories didn't turn me on.

Alright, let's talk about Nibelungenlied. This German epic is easier to understand than those of Mahabharata and Ramayana, maybe because I had a good professor who was narrative enough to tell us its story. (Naks, Sir Rick! XD) Well, it's not really difficult to understand. Perhaps because the story is somewhat romantic in a way and it was interesting. The story has awesome characters and it's not like those typical old epics which bore us a lot. It has a little twists/comedy as what our professor narrated us. I don't know if he was serious about it or if he was just making fun of it so that it wouldn't be boring. It's a really interesting story for me, and actually this is one of my favorite topics in our course. It might be very fantasy-like for some, but this really made me like short epics. I would recommend such epic to young children but of course with proper supervision because not all the parts in this story are for kids probably because the theme which is Revenge and Treachery are not really for them. Hihihi.