tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post6628008443234196810..comments2023-12-22T20:36:45.744-05:00Comments on Isle of Wonder: Who were the Nibelungs?The Red Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-67529347734221674082011-02-11T08:08:25.851-05:002011-02-11T08:08:25.851-05:00The writer of The Nibelungenlied was not a histori...The writer of The Nibelungenlied was not a historian but a poet.<br />Interestingly, while I was reading I came across the tidbit that Paul the Deacon was responsible for the mistaken notion that Attila had wiped out the first Burgundian kingdom. So, the poet could have been writing in good faith with incorrect info.The Red Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-9369656263624410032011-02-09T11:37:33.141-05:002011-02-09T11:37:33.141-05:00Unfortunately "the truth" and historians...Unfortunately "the truth" and historians are often at variance. A historian is also a human being with his/her likes and dislikes.Anachronisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10398058819007642332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-89676902313009259702011-02-09T03:49:00.740-05:002011-02-09T03:49:00.740-05:00True. But fiction-writers could always claim that ...True. But fiction-writers could always claim that it's just a story, a figment of my creative genius (or back then some other playwright's imagination, since plagiarism was rife. ) <br />But a historian is supposed to write 'the truth' (as they interpret it) - so anything they describe is given far more weight.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070070360087765540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-19181687786043281772011-02-06T19:34:31.944-05:002011-02-06T19:34:31.944-05:00@It is a tangled story - with the fall of Rome not...@It is a tangled story - with the fall of Rome nothing was simple. But at least you tried to straighten it up.<br /><br />It is just a theory. An educated guess. I think historians have been looking in Xanten or along the Rhine for Siegfried. Scholars might scoff at my idea.<br /><br />@The confusion caused by the addition of mythic elements, and chroniclers not writing the truth because they'The Red Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731703967439763663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-72072888403925023572011-02-06T10:36:02.036-05:002011-02-06T10:36:02.036-05:00The confusion caused by the addition of mythic ele...The confusion caused by the addition of mythic elements, and chroniclers not writing the truth because they'd rather live to a ripe old age than risk seriously offending someone in power, must make the average historian tear their hair out!Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070070360087765540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079559053290094565.post-51336725922423696162011-02-05T15:28:24.923-05:002011-02-05T15:28:24.923-05:00The Burgundians became the Nibelungs, get it? Hard...<i>The Burgundians became the Nibelungs, get it?</i> Hardly ;)<br /><br />It is a tangled story - with the fall of Rome nothing was simple. But at least you tried to straighten it up.Anachronisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10398058819007642332noreply@blogger.com