SOURCE: “Hagen and the Problem of Individuality in the Nibelungenlied,” Monatshefte, Vol. 68, No. 1, 1976, pp. 5-12.
In the following essay, Gentry maintains that the Nibelungenlied explores the issue of feudal bonds while it instructs its audience that an individual moral decision can override law and custom.
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