Kudrun, with The Book of King Otnit and The Book of Wolf Dietrich, ed. and trans., with an intro., by William T. Whobrey. Indianapolis, IN, and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2025, xxxvi, 302 pp.

Considering that Anglophone speakers know less and less foreign languages, and that older forms of those are virtually unknown today, we can only welcome the effort by the expert translator William T. Whobrey who presents here the Middle High German epic poems Kudrun, Ortnit (he spells it without the ‘r’ contrary to scholarly standards due to the appearance of that name in the Ambras manuscript) and Wolfdietrich (here spelled with two names). The arguments for these decisions do not fully convince me since the new versions might confuse future readers.