Your comment made my day! :-) It's so wonderful to find another Nibelungenlied fan - particularly another Hagen fan, since (you will probably not be surprised to hear) he is my favorite character too.
Parzival in Wolfram von Eschenbach's version is a glorious, sprawling, clever and sarcastic and occasionally slapsticky epic novel that is well-worth the effort, if you have any tolerance for and/or interest in medieval Arthurian novels at all. Excepting Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished Parzival novel (which Eschenbach based part of his own work on), Eschenbach's novel is the original version of both the Parzival legend and the grail legend, though of course there have been many many other versions since he wrote the novel around 1200/1210.
I don't actually remember much about The Once and Future King, though I did read it at one point, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have much to do with what I can't help but think of as the original version. ;-) Such is my geeky nature... and I am sorry for geeking out like this! I have no excuse, except that I don't often get to talk about this these days. :-)
Anyway, the true crack of this crossover is that the characters and narrative worlds of the Nibelungenlied (harsh, feudal Germanic heroic epic poetry) and Parzival (romantic, flowery medieval Christian novel) have absolutely nothing in common. I couldn't resist throwing them together and seeing the brutal culture clash. *g*
As you can tell from this horribly over-length reply, I am very glad you found and enjoyed this story! Thank you very much for commenting. :-)
I do have a small handful of other Nibelungenlied fanfics lying about on my harddrive; perhaps I should dust them off and see if I should post them somewhere. So far I'd assumed I was the only person on the fannish internet who knew the canon. :-)
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Date: 2013-12-23 09:48 pm (UTC)Parzival in Wolfram von Eschenbach's version is a glorious, sprawling, clever and sarcastic and occasionally slapsticky epic novel that is well-worth the effort, if you have any tolerance for and/or interest in medieval Arthurian novels at all. Excepting Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished Parzival novel (which Eschenbach based part of his own work on), Eschenbach's novel is the original version of both the Parzival legend and the grail legend, though of course there have been many many other versions since he wrote the novel around 1200/1210.
I don't actually remember much about The Once and Future King, though I did read it at one point, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have much to do with what I can't help but think of as the original version. ;-) Such is my geeky nature... and I am sorry for geeking out like this! I have no excuse, except that I don't often get to talk about this these days. :-)
Anyway, the true crack of this crossover is that the characters and narrative worlds of the Nibelungenlied (harsh, feudal Germanic heroic epic poetry) and Parzival (romantic, flowery medieval Christian novel) have absolutely nothing in common. I couldn't resist throwing them together and seeing the brutal culture clash. *g*
As you can tell from this horribly over-length reply, I am very glad you found and enjoyed this story! Thank you very much for commenting. :-)
I do have a small handful of other Nibelungenlied fanfics lying about on my harddrive; perhaps I should dust them off and see if I should post them somewhere. So far I'd assumed I was the only person on the fannish internet who knew the canon. :-)