The Nibelungenlied

The 'Nibelungenlied' surpasses the former in the deep tragedy which pervades it, the tragedy of fate, the inevitable retribution for crime, the never-dying struggle between the powers of good and evil, between light and darkness.

《尼伯龙根之歌》超越了前者，充满了深刻的悲剧，这是命运的悲剧，对罪行的不可避免的报应，善与恶、光明与黑暗之间永恒的斗争。

One of its earliest critics fitly called it a German 'Iliad', for, like this great Greek epic, it goes back to the remotest times and unites the monumental fragments of half-forgotten myths and historical personages into a poem that is essentially national in character, and the embodiment of all that is great in the antiquity of the race.

它最早的批评者之一恰当地称它为德国的《伊利亚特》，因为像这部伟大的希腊史诗一样，它追溯到最遥远的时代，并将半被遗忘的神话和历史人物的纪念性碎片融合成一首本质上具有民族性的诗，体现了种族古老伟大的一切。