This volume in the Oxford Myths and Legends series is divided into two sections. The first relates some of the splendid legends of the great German heroes, among them the story of Gudrun, and the stirring saga of Siegfried and the vengeance of Kriemhild — stories of the legendary past of the Teutonic people. There follows a lively collection of traditional folk-tales including the entertaining escapades of the rascally Till Eulenspiegel, well-known stories like The Mouse-tower and The Rathcather of Hamelin, and other, perhaps less familiar, tales of enchantment and chivalry.

Barbara Leonie Picard, also the author of French Legends, Tales and Fairy Stories in the same series, is well known for her original fairy stories and her retelling of traditional tales, She has brought to her writing a beauty and purity of style, a consummate skill as story-teller, that make this book one of the most distinguished volumes in a noted series. The illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe are as outstanding as any of her much acclaimed work for the earlier books.

From the dust jacket of the Oxford Press first edition