!!!Kudrun

Kudrun, anonymous heroic poem consisting of 1,705 stanzas, written in 
the middle of the 13%%sup th/%  century in the area of Bavaria or 
Austria (perhaps in Styria, but more likely near a larger town like 
Ratisbon or Vienna). The heroic poem is only extant in its earlier 
version in the  Ambraser Heldenbuch; it follows the tradition of the 
Germanic heroic legends, but deals with courting and wooing and has a 
happy ending; therefore it is considered the "Counter-Nibelungenlied". 
According to its 3 main characters, it is divided into 3 parts (Hagen, 
Hilde, Kudrun). As far as its form is concerned the Kudrun stanza is 
an extension of the Nibelungen stanza ( Nibelungenlied).

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Ed.: B. Boesch (ed.), K., %%sup 4/%1964; W. Hoffmann (ed.), Das 
Nibelungenlied. Kudrun, 1972.

!Literature
R. Wisniewski, Kudrun, 1963; W. Hoffmann, 
Mittelhochdeutsche Heldendichtung, 1974.


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