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THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS
(VOLSUNGA SAGA)
with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda
 Author unknown, translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888), edited by Douglas B. Killings (1997)
Introduction by H. HALLIDAY SPARLiNG
 Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #29

Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the thirteenth century A.D., by an unknown hand. However, most of the material is based substantially on previous works, some centuries older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse poetry known as the "Poetic Edda".

The text of this edition is based on that published as "The Story of the Volsungs", translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (Walter Scott Press, London, 1888). This edition is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in the United States.

This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@EnterAct.COM), May 1997.

Contents

APPENDIX: Excerpts from the Poetic Edda

  • Part of the Second Lay of Helgi Hundings-Bane
  • Part of the Lay of Sigrdrifa
  • The Lay Called the Short Lay of Sigurd
  • The Hell-Ride of Brynhild
  • Fragments of the Lay of Brynhild
  • The Second or Ancient Lay of Gudrun
  • The Song of Atli
  • The Whetting of Gudrun
  • The Lay of Hamdir
  • The Lament of Oddrun

Selected Bibliography

  • Anonymous: "Kudrun", Translated by Marion E. Gibbs & Sidney Johnson (Garland Pub., New York, 1992).
  • Anonymous: "Nibelungenlied", Translated by A.T. Hatto (Penguin Classics, London, 1962).
  • Saxo Grammaticus: "The First Nine Books of the Danish History", Translated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894; Reissued by the Online Medieval and Classical Library as E-Text OMACL #28, 1997).
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