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How Eric Hansen's German...

Eric Hansen is a lapsed Mormon from the states. He's written a book (in German) called "The Nibelungen Journey -- Through the Middle Ages in a VW Bus"


He's been here for 18 years. He can speak German, at a decent pace with only a moderate amount of stumbling...and he sounds distinctly American.

The Nibelungenlied was commissioned around 1200 A.D. by a bishop in Passau (just east of here), and recounts legends about people from land near the Rhine (just west of here) dating from approximately 500 A.D.