Contributor biographical information for Das Nibelungenlied = Song of the Nibelungs / translated from the Middle High German by Burton Raffel ; foreword by Michael Dirda ; introduction by Edward R. Haymes.
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Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He lives in Lafayette. His many works of translation include the narrative poems of Chre;tien de Troyes and Poems and Prose from the Old English, all published by Yale University Press.
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