The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

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Christopher Tolkien. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO THE ‘ELDER EDDA’

§1 THE ‘PROSE EDDA’ OF SNORRI STURLUSON

§2 THE SAGA OF THE VÖLSUNGS (Völsunga Saga)

§3 THE TEXT OF THE POEMS

§4 THE SPELLING OF NORSE NAMES

§5 THE VERSE-FORM OF THE POEMS

Alliteration

§6 NOTES ON THE POEMS, BY THE AUTHOR

VÖLSUNGAKVIÐA EN NÝJA. UPPHAF (Beginning)

I. ANDVARA-GULL (Andvari’s Gold)

II SIGNÝ

III. DAUÐI SINFJÖTLA (The Death of Sinfjötli)

IV. FŒDDR SIGURÐR (Sigurd Born)

V. REGIN

VI. BRYNHILDR

VII. GUÐRÚN

VIII. SVIKIN BRYNHILDR (Brynhild Betrayed)

IX. DEILD (Strife)

COMMENTARY. on VÖLSUNGAKVIÐA EN NÝJA

UPPHAF

I ANDVARA-GULL (Andvari’s Gold)

II SIGNÝ

III DAUÐI SINFJÖTLA (The Death of Sinfjötli)

IV FŒDDR SIGURÐR (Sigurd born)

V REGIN

VI BRYNHILDR

VII GUÐRÚN

VIII SVIKIN BRYNHILDR (Brynhild Betrayed)

IX DEILD (Strife)

Note on Brynhild

Earlier Workings of Völsungakviða en nýja

GUÐRÚNARKVIÐA EN NÝJA

COMMENTARY on GUÐRÚNARKVIÐA EN NÝJA

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A. A short account of the ORIGINS OF THE LEGEND § I Attila and Gundahari

§ II Sigmund, Sigurd and the Nibelungs

APPENDIX B. THE PROPHECY OF THE SIBYL

APPENDIX C. FRAGMENTS OF A HEROIC POEM OF ATTILA IN OLD ENGLISH

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Notes

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Notes

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COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

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The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda is a collection of poems of great diversity, composed by poets who lived centuries apart; but it was compiled and ordered with intelligent care. Most of the heroic poems are concerned with the story of the Völsungs and the Niflungs; and these the compiler of the collection arranged, so far as the diverse structure and scope of the individual lays allowed him, in a narrative sequence, adding explanatory passages in prose at the beginning and end of many of the lays, and narrative links in the course of them.

But much of the material thus arranged is of the utmost difficulty. Poems are disordered or defective, or even patchworks of different origin altogether, and there are very many obscurities of detail; while worst of all, the fifth gathering of the Codex Regius disappeared long ago (see p.28), with the loss of all Eddaic poetry for the central part of the legend of Sigurd.

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