Excerpt from Stories From Old Germany, Vol. 1
In the compilation of these legends, it has been the writer"s plan to take from the Nibelungen Lied only such parts of it as appeal to the poetic imagination of the child reader, and to hold before him such pictures of the hero Siegfried as are safe to influence the boy"s conception of what a hero should be.
The last half of the story - Kriemhilde"s sufferings at Brunhilde"s hand, and her own fierce revenge - has been omitted. Such stories may be - and are - of value to the historian, the philologist, and the searcher into race distinctions and common characteristics. To these the whole story has its value; but for the child to whom the Lay is but a fairy tale, may we not presume to select from and prune a little even from so rare a bit of ancient literature?
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