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Just like many ancient tales, this is a story of happy feasts, woe, and daring deeds. (read more)

Adventure 1, Kriemhild's Dream

Adventure 2, Siegfried

Adventure 3, How Siegfried Went to Worms

Adventure 4, How Siegfried Fought with the Saxons

Adventure 5, How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild

Adventure 6, How Gunther Went to Woo Brunhild

Adventure 7, How Gunther Won Brunhild

Adventure 8, How Siegfried Came to the Nibelungers

Adventure 9, How Siegfried Was Sent to Worms

Adventure 10, How Brunhild Was Received at Worms

Adventure 11, How Siegfried Brought His Wife Home

Adventure 12, How Gunther Invited Siegfried to the Festival

Adventure 13, How They Went to the Festival

Adventure 14, How the Two Queens Reviled One Another

Adventure 15, How Siegfried Was Betrayed

Adventure 16, How Siegfried Was Slain

Adventure 17, How Siegfried Was Bewailed and Burned

Adventure 18, How Siegmund Returned Home

Adventure 19, How the Treasure of the Nibelungers Was Brought to Worms

Adventure 20, How King Etzel Sent Into Burgundy to Propose for Kriemhild

Adventures 21 and 22, How Kriemhild Departed and How the Huns Received Kriemhild

Adventure 23, How Kriemhild Thought of Revenging Her Injuries

Adventure 24, How Werbel and Swemmeline Delivered the Message

Adventure 25, How the Lords All Came Into Hungary

Adventure 26, How Dankwart Slew Gelfrat

Adventure 27, Rudeger's Hospitality

Adventure 28, How Kriemhild Received Hagen

Adventure 29, How Hagen Refused to Rise to Kriemhild

Adventure 30, How the Knights Kept Watch

Adventure 31, How the Knights Went to Church

Adventure 32, How Bloedelin Was Slain

Adventure 33, How the Burgundians Fought With the Huns

Adventure 34, How They Threw Down the Dead

Adventure 35, How Iring Was Slain

Adventure 36, How the Queen Gave Orders to Burn Down the Hall

Adventure 37, How Margrave Rudeger Was Slain

Adventure 38, How Sir Dietrich's Men Were All Slain

Adventure 39, How Gunther and Hagen and Kriemhild Were Slain

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