SOURCE: “Studies Towards an Interpretation of the Nibelungenlied,” German Life & Letters, New Series Vol. XIV, No. 4, July, 1961, pp. 257-70.
In the following essay, Mowatt explains why taking a historical approach in analyzing the Nibelungenlied is unsatisfactory; Mowatt then offers suggestions for studying it using a structural approach.
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