This part of the Worms' city wall houses the Nibelungen Museum. The Nibelungen legend is a great saga that is set largely in Worms. There are differing versions of the story. The version I like is closer to Fritz Lang's 5 hour silent film than to Wagner's Ring Cycle operas.
The museum is modern. There are headsets available in English. One just needs to walk to the listenting stations and you get the narrator explaining the whole story in one tower and then different segments of the poem in the second tower. You sit in the chair and listen.
I think I mentioned earlier that I bought the Fritz Lang movie. It's five hours long and clips are used extensively in the museum. I even picked up some little dragons for souvenirs as a dragon is key to the story. It give a new meaning to "blood bath".
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