SOURCE: “Rüdiger's Dilemma,” Studies in Philology, Vol. LVII, No. 1, January, 1960, pp. 7-21.
In the following essay, Jones explains how the Germanic ethics of the Nibelungenlied differ from modern values, and urges that the reader be aware of these differences in trying to understand the motivation of the characters in the work.
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