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This translates the M.H.G. "tarnkappe", a word often retained by translators.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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This translates the M.H.G. “tarnkappe”, a word often retained by translators.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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Meanwhile Siegfried had arrayed himself in his magic cloak, the tarnkappe, and thus made invisible to all he returned to the company and hastened to King Gunther's side.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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From this same dwarf he wrested a magic cloak or tarnkappe, that gave its owner wonderful strength, made him proof against every blow dealt him, and enabled him to become invisible.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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And so it chanced that with the help of the tarnkappe, Siegfried, all unseen, overcame the Queen in a mighty struggle that had been brought on by some show of authority on Gunther's part.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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All the earth seemed to resound with the death-dealing blow, and surely had it not been for the tarnkappe both
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Perhaps you have never heard of Siegfried's tarnkappe.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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[1] This is the _tarnkappe_, a cloak that made the wearer invisible, and also gave him the strength of twelve men.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Hagen (strophes 86-501), how he won the hoard, the _tarnkappe_, and the sword Balmung, and slew the dragon, is evidently a faint echo of an earlier version of this episode, which sounds out of place in the more modern German form of the story.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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