The Story Of Sigurd The Volsung And The Fall Of The Niblungs
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Author | : William Morris |
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2019-06-02 |
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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.
Author | : William Morris |
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : William Morris |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : William Morris |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Völsunga saga |
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Author | : William Morris |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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'The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs' is an epic poem by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd, and Sigurd's wife Gudrun. It sprang from a fascination with the Volsung legend that extended back twenty years to the author's youth, and had already resulted in several other literary and scholarly treatments of the story. It was Morris's own favorite of his poems, and was enthusiastically praised both by contemporary critics and by such figures as T. E. Lawrence and George Bernard Shaw.
Author | : William Morris |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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'The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs' is an epic poem by William Morris, recounting the story of Norse hero Sigmund and his descendants. Sigurd, the son of Sigmund, grows up to become a warrior, slaying dragons and falling in love with Brynhild, a handmaiden of Odin. Despite their love, Sigurd marries another at the behest of others, and tragedy unfolds. Morris's work is a must-read for anyone fascinated by Norse mythology and heroic sagas, and has been praised by critics and scholars for over a century.
Author | : Henry Halliday Sparling |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Edda Sæmundar |
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Author | : William Morris |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2020-03-14 |
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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs is an epic poem telling the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd and Sigurd's wife Gudrun. It sprang from a fascination with the Volsung legend that extended back twenty years to the author's youth, and had already resulted in several other literary and scholarly treatments of the story. It was Morris's own favorite of his poems
Author | : William Morris |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9780243619825 |
Author | : William 1834-1896 Morris |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781372310096 |
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