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Topic: Volsung

	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)

	III. The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. Of the Sword that Sigmund, Volsung's son, drew from the Branstock. ...
		Of the Sword that Sigmund, Volsung's son, drew from the Branstock.
		The king got ready the feast according to his best might, and when all things were ready, came the king’s guests and King Siggeir withal at the day appointed, and many a man of great account had Siggeir with him.
		The man is Odin, who is always so represented, because he gave his eye as a pledge for a draught from the fountain of Mimir, the source of all wisdom.
	www.bartleby.com /49/4/103.html (336 words)

	OMACL: The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga)
		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).
		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
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Volsunga (586 words)

	The Saga of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Volsung had a palace built around the tree Branstock so that the trunk of the tree was in the palace.
		King Volsung was killed and all of his sons taken prisoner.
		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)

	§5. "Sigurd the Volsung". V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, ...
		In 1875, he published his translation of the Aeneid and a small volume of translations of Icelandic stories which preluded his most ambitious poem, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs.
		The episodes follow one another with unfailing vigour and freshness, and, in the climax of the story, the slaying of the Niblung kings, the slayers of Sigurd, in the hall of Atli, the death-song of Gunnar among the serpents and the vengeance and death of Gudrun, Morris pursued his theme triumphantly to the end.
		If the chosen form of Sigurd the Volsung did not wholly fulfil its promise when it came to cope with the Homeric hexameter, it was at least thoroughly adequate to an occasion when Morris was free to deal with his story untrammelled by the exigencies of translation.
	www.bartleby.com /223/0505.html (694 words)

	Völsunga Saga
		Geneology: House of the Volsungs and the Giukings (Niflungs)
		Volsung was born an orphan, but unlike children, but he was huge in size and strength, succeeded his father, becoming king of Hunland.
		Volsung became the father of ten mighty sons and a daughter, Signy.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/volsunga.html (5249 words)

	THE VOLSUNG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Volsung had many children, and first among them were a pair of twins: a boy by the name of Sigmund and a girl by the name of Signy.
		Realizing that no son she could possibly bear by her husband would ever be strong enough to avenge the death of her father and brothers, she approached a seithrkonnur for help.
		The seithrkonnur agreed to change shapes with her, so that she might sleep with her own brother, Sigmund, and produce a son, of the pure line of the Volsung, and strong enough to avenge her family.
	www.balderrising.org /volsung.htm (1044 words)

	Northvegr - Völsunga Saga
		Of the Birth of Volsung, the Son of Rerir,
		From his early years he was big and strong, and full of daring in all manly deeds and trials, and he became the greatest of warriors, and of good hap in all the battles of his warfaring.
		So says the story that king Volsung let build a noble hall in such a wise, that a big oak-tree stood therein, and that the limbs of the tree blossomed fair out over the roof of the hall, while below stood the trunk within it, and the said trunk did men call Branstock.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/volsunga/004.php (833 words)

	Volsungs
		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.
		Thus, Sigmund carries Volsung's mystic bloodline as wellas that of valkyrie and giant, even further tying the clan to the underworld aswell as the primal sphere.
	www.webcom.com /~lstead/June94/volsung.html (3069 words)

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		So the king gathers together a mighty army, and therewith falls on his kinsmen, deeming that if he made their kinshipof small account, yet none the less they had first wrought evil against him.
		From his early years he was big and strong, and full of daring in all manly deeds and trials, and he became the gratest of warriors, and of good hap in all the battles of his warfaring.
		So Volsungs weds her withal ; and long they abode together with good hap and grat love.
	biblio.medieval.free.fr /Volsungs2.html (238 words)

	Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the nineteenth century, as the Volsung story was rediscovered, becoming widely known throughout Europe.
		Tolkien, in particular found great inspiration the The Saga of the Volsungs, including the sword that was reforged, rings of power, the dragon on the hoard, and the creature Gollum.
		So, too, Richard Wagner drew heavily upon the Norse Volsung material in composing the Ring cycle as is discussed elsewhere in the Introduction to this translation.
	www.viking.ucla.edu /volsungs/overview.html (372 words)

	The Norroena Society presents The Story of the Volsungs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Now tells the tale of King Volsung and his sons that they go at the time appointed to Gothland at the bidding of King Siggeir, and put off from the land in three ships, all well manned, and have a fair voyage, and made Gothland late of an evening tide.
		But that same night came Signy and called her father and brothers to a privy talk, and told them what she deemed King Siggeir was minded to do, and how that he had drawn together an army no man may meet.
		So this winter wears, and the next winter Signy sent her next son to Sigmund; and there is no need to make a long tale thereof, for in like wise went all things, and he slew the child by the counsel of Signy.
	www.norroena.org /Volsungs/page5.html (564 words)

	Volsung Arbiters Guild Wars Guild
		The Volsung Arbiters is a guild bent on deciding when to kick monster ass, I suppose, but in a solitary fashion.
		That's the advantage of belonging to this guild, the Volsung Arbiters value independence, and while there may be certain guild oriented activities just to mess around and get experience, every member realizes that gameplay is about a solo adventure, and there will be no requirements after joining.
		Since the Volsung Arbiters are solitary types, rarely will we be at 'war' with other guilds, or actually compete with other guilds.
	www.froyd.net /misc/guild.htm (416 words)

	Jani Salonen \| Mytologia, Volsung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When Signy, Volsung's only daughter, was married against her will to the Gothic king Siggeir, a one-eyed stranger appeared among the wedding guests.
		Nor was anyone else able to pull out the sword, except the youngest of Volsung's sons, Sigmund.
		Despite Signy's warning, Volsung and his ten sons walked into Siggeir's trap when they accepted an invitation to visit his court.
	koti.kontu.la /jsalonen/jani/main_myth_128.html (328 words)

	Wagner's Sources - 1
		This takes the form it does because it was developed from a version of Chapter II of my Ph.D. thesis which I first of all e-mailed to the OPERA-L list,and which was then added to the Wagner Archive by its maintainer, Hannu Salmi.
		Volsung is killed by Siggeir's men; his sons are captured, and killed one by one, until only Sigmund is left.
		In VS and in SIGURD THE VOLSUNG, Sigmund's sword is broken, but he is able to speak to his wife before he dies; he asks her to keep the broken pieces of the sword for their son, who is destined to be a great hero.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /southbank/pottery/31/ring1.html (2778 words)

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