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Volsunga Saga
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Volsunga saga

(“Saga of the Volsungs”) Best of the Icelandic sagas known as fornaldar sogur (“sagas of antiquity”). Dating from roughly 1270, it is the first of the fornaldar sogur to have been written down. It contains the Northern version of the story told in the Nibelungenlied. The saga was based on the heroic poems in the Poetic Edda and is especially valuable because it preserves in prose form some of the poems from the Edda that were lost. It became one of the sources of Richard Wagner's operatic Ring tetralogy.

Volsunga Saga
cycle of Scandinavian legends, major source of Niebelungenlied. [Scand. Lit.: Benét, 1064]
See : Epic
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Among the translations, the most important are The Saga of the Volsungs, the saga of Regmer Lodbrok, together with the lay of Krake (1930), and Three Icelandic Sagas (translated together with M.
Margaret Schlauch (1) (1898-1986) by Fisiak, Jacek / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
In short summary, The Saga of the Volsungs tells the story of the dragon-slayer, Sigurd.
The blade against the burden: the iconograpgy of the sword in The ... by Brisbois, Michael J. / Mythlore
10) Similarly, in the Saga of the Volsungs (a work which Tolkien knew well), (11) the Valkyrie Brynhild gives Sigurd knowledge of "victory runes" which are carved in the hilt and blade of a sword: Victory runes shall you know If you want to secure wisdom, And cut them on the sword hilt, On the center ridge of the blade, And the parts of the brand, And name Tyr twice.
"In the hilt is fame": resonances of medieval swords and sword-lore ... by McDonald, R. Andrew / Mythlore
 
 
 
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