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	Richard Wagner and the Saga of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Richard Wagner and the Saga of the Volsungs
		In the saga, Sigurd's half brother Sinfjotli is of incestuous birth; Wagner transfers this motif, and the dramatic story that surrounds it, to his principal hero, Siegfried (Sigurd).
		Whereas Sigurd in The Saga of the Volsungs is treacherously killed in bed, Wagner followed the German version which has the hero die in a splendid forest setting, providing the composer with an opportunity to have his music reflect forest and mountain scenes.
	www.viking.ucla.edu /volsungs/wagner.html (1165 words)

	Old Norse Religion: Early Volsung History
		King Volsung and the giantess Hljod married and between them they had ten sons and one daughter, the youngest son and daughter being twins and named Sigmund and Signy (not to be confused with Loki's goddess wife of the same name).
		Volsungs sons all grew up mighty and strong like him, and soon many sagas and eddas where told of their exploits while Signy became known for being a fine looking woman.
		Volsung refuses to do so as not to ruin his image as a mighty warrior, then sent her back to Siggeir against her wish.
	www.vikingage.com /vac/volsung.html (1187 words)

	Völsunga Saga
		Geneology: House of the Volsungs and the Giukings (Niflungs)
		Volsung was born almost a man in size and strength.
		Volsung was born an orphan, but unlike children, but he was huge in size and strength, succeeded his father, becoming king of Hunland.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/volsunga.html (5217 words)

	Volsungs
		The Saga of the Volsungs, an oral account written during the latterperiod between 1200 and 1270 in the Codex Regius (Book of Kings) anddiscovered later in a burning barn, accounts for events that likely occurredduring the transformative Indo-European migration era of the third throughfifth centuries.
		Strengthening this interpretation would be that his very conception was clearlyinfluenced by the Gods: while barren, Volsung's mother is impregnated shortlyafter her husband, King Rerir, pleads to the Gods for aid in fathering an heir.Frigg, patron of marriages, hears the plea and consults Odin, who instructs thevalkyrie Hljod to settle the matter.
		So Volsung is semi-born of a barren mother after six years of gestation withdirect intervention from the Gods, and whose conception is marked from thestart as possessing a foothold in the underworld.
	www.webcom.com /~lstead/June94/volsung.html (3069 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Saga Of the Volsungs: Norse Epic Sigurd the Dragon Slayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The saga is of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle.
		With its magical ring acquired by the hero, and the sword to be reforged, the saga has also been a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris.
		The Saga of the Volsungs is the Norse epic upon which Wagner's Ring Cycle is based.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0520066839 (704 words)

	The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga): Introduction
		Something in the perfection of the saga is to be traced to the long winter's evenings, when the whole household, gathered together at their spinning, weaving, and so on, would listen to one of their number who told anew some old story of adventure or achievement.
		At the feast or gathering, or by the fireside, as men made nets and women spun, these tales were told over; in their frequent repetition by men who believed them, though incident or sequence underwent no change, they would become closer knit, more coherent, and each an organic whole.
		All sagas that have yet appeared in English may be found in the book-list at end of this volume, but they are not a tithe of those that remain.
	www.podsnet.org /Soteg/Library/Vol/vol-intr.htm (4605 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The queen soon bore Volsung He married the aforementioned wish-maiden who was named Hljod.
		Hljod and Volsung had ten sons, the eldest named Sigmund, and one daughter, Signy.
		Volsung had a palace built around the tree Branstock so that the trunk of the tree was in the palace.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~cherryne/volsung.html (502 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King Volsung was killed and all of his sons taken prisoner.
		Siggeir thought all the Volsungs were dead, but Sigmund lived in the forest underground.
		She had two sons with Siggeir and sent the eldest when he was ten to Sigmund to aid in the revenge of Volsung.
	www.feri.com /dawn/volsung.html (493 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his story on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture.
		What the Volsung does have is a primal force of events that seem at times puzzling to the more modern reader who is used to internal dialogue and much exposition.
		The Volsung is inhabited by the Norse gods, magic is common and so is a level of violence that one does not usually see in literature today e.g., a mother who for the sake of vengeance kills her two children -- more coldly than Medea.
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	Saga of the Volsungs
		In The Saga of the Volsungs, the anonymous author attempts to teach the lesson of honesty.
		In The Saga of the Volsungs, through lies, broken promises, and gossip, the author explores the horrible consequences of not being truthful.
		In The Saga of the Volsungs, the breaking of vows constitutes a serious crime.
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	The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) \| Anonymous \| Ian Myles Slater on: An Outstanding... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		But Jesse L. Byock's "The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer" is in print.
		This Viking saga probably has more roots in so called "myth" than any others I have read and its one of the most entertaining ones also.
	this-is-great.com /info/feifiiraln (1579 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics)
		Admittedly I'm a big fan of the Saga style, which may be why I prefer this, but still, for the general reader the Volsunga Saga is more readable and tells the legendary story far better than the more "famous" German epic.
		The Volsung Saga is still sketchy at times and contains some abrupt jumps and spots where it seems something is "missing" but overall this is a MUCH more coherent telling of the Nibelung legend.
		And it's the version most people expect when they turn to the medeival sources: Wagner drew more from the Volsung Saga than he did from the Nibelungenlied for his Ring Cycle of operas.
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	Saga Of The Volsungs; Author: Translator Byock, Jesse L.; Author: Notes by Byock, Jesse L.; Paperback; Standard ...
		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 thedragon 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 Hunand other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman empire.
		The saga of the Volsungs, the Norse epic of Sigurd the Dragon-slayer, is one of the most important texts of old Icelandic literature, and of central importance for an understanding of Viking society.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Egil's Saga (Classics S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since the sagas are notable for an unadorned prose, the concept of the translation was criticized by scholars who reviewed it at the time -- although they added that they found that the result was better than the theory.
		This saga examines four generations of a redoubtable Icelandic family of warrior poets thought to be descended from trolls, beginning with Kveldulf in the first generation; Skallagrim, in the second; Egil, in the third; and finally petering out with Thorstein, who is content to be a mere farmer.
		Egil's Saga is a plainly written, quick, and easy text, but you might want to keep this one away from the particularly young ones since there is an incredible amount of pretty graphic violence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140443215?v=glance (3306 words)

	Blindness And The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock, ISBN 0140447385
		The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L. Byock, ISBN 0140447385
		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.
		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. Tolkien and for Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.
	www.supercreepsvideo.com /blindness.htm (231 words)

	The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga): Translators' Preface
		In the slaying of the Dragon the Saga adheres very closely to the "Lay of Fafnir"; for the insertion of the song of the birds to Sigurd the present translators are responsible.
		The betrayal and slaughter of the Giukings or Niblungs, and the fearful end of Atli and his sons, and court, are recounted in two lays, called the "Lays of Atli"; the longest of these, the "Greenland Lay of Atli", is followed closely by the Sagaman; the Shorter one we have translated.
		The end of Gudrun, of her daughter by Sigurd and of her sons by her last husband Jonakr, treated of in the last four chapters of the Saga, are very grandly and poetically given in the songs called the "Whetting of Gudrun", and the "Lay of Hamdir", which are also among our translations.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Volsunga/preface.html (526 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous 0140447385 - Direct Textbook Details and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And Morris' archaizing style in his saga translations suggests that the sagas' language is highly wrought and romantically lush, when, by all accounts, the style is notably sparse, and even severe.
		In 1930, the American-Scandinavian Foundation published a new translation by Margaret Schlauch, which instead of Eddic poems included "Ragnar Lodbrok's Saga" and the poem "Krakumal," which follow "Volsunga" in the unique parchment manuscript, and were clearly designed to be part of the same story.
		The various digital editions being offered also may all be this well-out-of-copyright translation; the Kessinger e-book edition follows an 1888 printing, with a long-obsolete introduction, for example (and I assume is, with its misprints, identical to their 'hard copy' version).
	www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0140447385 (1753 words)

	Saga of the Volsungs
		Her son, Volsung, age six at birth, kisses his mother before she dies.
		Volsung is killed and his tens sons were put in stocks.
		They burn the castle down and Signy goes with it because she felt herself a disgrace to the Volsung race.
	www.geocities.com /jezabelle2_moi/Volsung.html (785 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
		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.
		Admittedly I'm a big fan of the Saga style, which may be why I prefer this, but still, for the general...
		This Viking saga probably has more roots in so called "myth" than any others I have read and its one of the...
	www.markcarey.com /tools/store/p/0520232852 (388 words)

	Volsunga Saga / The Saga of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A highly dramatic rendering of tales from the remote Germanic past, the saga presents the Old Norse version of the story of the Volsungs, Gjukungs, and Budlungs, three families fated to destroy each other.
		The author composed the saga using earlier cycles of heroic poems, imbedding in his prose text a number of poetic stanzas and one nearly complete poem that we also have recorded in a thirteenth-century collection of poetry known as the Poetic Edda.
		This edition presents a new English translation of the saga with a diplomatic transcription of the Old Norse text, based on the only vellum manuscript Nks 1824 b, 4° from 1400, on facing pages.
	www.aq-verlag.de /70.0.html (331 words)

	THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS - Jesse Byock - Penguin Books
		An unforgettable tale of princely jealousy, unrequited love, greed and vengeance, the Saga of the Volsungs is one of the great books of world literature.
		Yet it is also 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.
		An illuminating Introduction links the historical Huns, Burgundians and Goths with the events of this Icelandic saga, whose author claimed that Sigurd's name was 'known in all tongues north of the Greek Ocean, and so it must remain while the world endures'.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140447385,00.html (205 words)

	Writers of Rohan: The Tolkien Library - Saga of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the nineteenth century as the Volsung story was discovered by the growing urban readership, it became widely known throughout Europe.
		The saga deeply influenced William Morris in the nineteenth century and J.R.R.Tolkien in the twentieth.
		The Saga of the Volsungs is a collection of what began as oral tales from Nordic mythology.
	www.writersofrohan.com /library/sagavolsungs.html (409 words)

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		Based on Viking Age poems and imperturbable in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend, and pure human drama in telling of the courageous deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer, who acquires runic knowledge from cardinal of Odin's Valkyries.
		Yet the saga is ordered in a same human world, incorporating buccal memories of the ordinal and ordinal centuries, when Attila the Hun and otherwise warriors fought on the north frontiers of the Roman empire.
		With its unfortunate Rhinegold, the sword reforged, and the supernatural ring of power, the saga resembles the Nibelungenlied and has been a first-string source for such fantasy writers as J. Tolkien and for Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.
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	Saga of the Volsungs Example Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports!
		The Saga of the Volsungs is an oral account written around 1200, but regards stories that took place during the European era of the third through the six centuries.
		It is a German epic about Sigurd the dragons layer, his family, the Volsungs, and their adventures (Lecture).
		Throughout this saga, there are a lot of different characteristics of women and medieval society represented, and examples of a few of these are gender and landscapes, and the other is kinship patterns.
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	The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer (Penguin Classics) - RadioDirectory.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Icelandic narrative is rich in a sense of personal honor offended, and legal precepts followed or ignored, and the German account is more concerned with the outer signs of rank and feudal hierarchy.
		And Morris' style suggests that the sagas' language is highly wrought, when, by all accounts, the style is notably sparse and severe.
		The stories are about a mythical family, the Volsungs, and their adventures.
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	Volsunga Saga - Story of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of the Birth of Volsung, the Son of Rerir, who was the Son of Sigi.
		Of the Sword that Sigmund, Volsung's son, drew from the Branstock
		Much of this Saga can also be found in the Poetic Edda, with such lays as:
	www.normannii.org /guilds_lore/lore/volsunga/volsunga.htm (474 words)

	The Volsung Saga Index
		Chapter II: Of the Birth of Volsung, the Son of Rerir, who was the Son of Sigi.
		Chapter III: Of the Sword that Sigmund, Volsung's son, drew from the Branstock.
		Chapter V: Of the Slaying of King Volsung.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/vlsng (435 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) Review: While I've not read other translations of this work, the story itself is excellent.
		The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) Review: Admittedly I'm a big fan of the Saga style, which may be why I prefer this, but still, for the general reader the Volsunga Saga is more readable and tells the legendary story far better than the more "famous" German epic.
		The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) Review: I have discovered that Mr.
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