The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Author: William Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2019-06-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781071061572

One of the great books of world literature-an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance. Based on Viking Age poems and composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend, and sheer human drama in telling of the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer, who acquires runic knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet the saga is set in a very human world, incorporating oral memories of the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun and other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman empire. In his illuminating Introduction Jesse L. Byock links the historical Huns, Burgundians, and Goths with the extraordinary events of this Icelandic saga. With its ill-fated Rhinegold, the sword reforged, and the magic ring of power, the saga resembles the Nibelungenlied and has been a primary source for such fantasy writers as J. R. R. Tolkien and for Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.

Völsunga Saga

Völsunga Saga
Author: Henry Halliday Sparling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1888
Genre: Edda Sæmundar
ISBN:

The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs
Author:
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520951514

The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle and a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.

The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún

The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547504713

Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. The Lay of Gudrún recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.

The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs
Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1624666353

From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
Author: William Morris
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9360461474

William Morris's "The Story of Sigurd the Volsung" is an epic story that makes use of Norse myths and the Volsunga Saga to inform a story of bravery, tragedy, and supernatural forces. Morris, an English writer with many competencies, wrote a poetic and bright tale about the famous Norse hero Sigurd that got here out in 1876. The story is set Sigurd, the courageous dragon-slayer, and it has parts approximately love, betrayal, and fate. The principal plot of this story is Sigurd's look for fame and the cursed ring of energy, as well as his doomed love affair with Brynhild. Morris brings returned the grandeur and seriousness of old sagas via his precise fashion of storytelling, which is marked via archaic language and poetic richness. Morris's works are critical due to the fact they had an impact at the Arts and Crafts motion, in addition to having thrilling memories. Along with writing, the author, who changed into an outstanding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, delivered his own drawings to the paintings, ensuing in a clean blend of writing and art. "The Story of Sigurd the Volsung" remains one of the maximum well-known works of Victorian literature. It suggests how determined Morris turned into to carry returned medieval literary conventions and provides to human beings's hobby in Norse mythology.

The Story of Siegfried

The Story of Siegfried
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1901
Genre: Folklore
ISBN:

Retells the Norse myth of Siegfried and the Nibelungen.