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Topic: Volsung Cycle

	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)

	Sigmund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He and his sister, Signy, are the children of Volsung.
		Volsung and Sigmund were attending the wedding feast (which lasted for some time before and after the marriage), when Odin, in the guise of a beggar, plunged a sword into the living tree around which Volsung's halls was built.
		The device of the broken sword that is recast was probably drawn mainly from the Volsung account by J.R.R. Tolkien for his The Lord of the Rings (though the motif also occurs in stories about Perceval).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sigmund (781 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 (5249 words)

	The Federation of Vinland Freeholds
		The story belongs in all its essentials to the Helgi tradition, with the Volsung cycle brought in only to the extent of making Helgi the son of Sigmund, and in the introduction of Sinfjotli, son of Sigmund and his sister Signy, in a passage which has
		In this poem Helgi kills all the sons of Hunding, but in the poems of the Sigurth cycle, and the prose notes attached thereto, Sigmund and his father-in-law, Eylimi, are killed by Hunding's sons, on whom Sigurth subsequently takes vengeance (cf.
		Gering identifies the name of Yngvi with the god Freyr, but the Volsungs certainly claimed descent from Othin, not Freyr, and there is nothing to indicate that Helgi in the Danish tradition was supposed to be descended from Freyr, whereas his descent from Yngvi Halfdansson fits well with the rest of his story.
	freeholds.tripod.com /18.html (2614 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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		Sigmund, one of the ten sons of Volsung (who is himself of miraculous birth) and the Wishmaiden Hlod, is one of the chosen heroes of Odin.
		I conjecture that it belonged originally to the Volsung cycle, and to the wer-wolf Sinfjoetli.
		The waverlowe of the Volsung myth may be traced back to the midsummer fires; the wooing of Brynhild by Sigurd's crossing the fire would thus, like the similar bridal of Menglad and Svipdag and the winning of Gerd for Frey, be based on the marriages which formed a part of agricultural rites.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/0/0/13008/13008.txt (13766 words)

	volsung_cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The twins became the central characters of the Volsung Cycle, in which Angrboda's nature is clearly inherited by them and the successive Volsung...
		The story belongs in all its essentials to the Helgi tradition, with the Volsung cycle brought in only to the extent of making Helgi the son of Sigmund, and in the introduction of Sinfjotli, son...
		The Volsung cycle showed that a man must be provided with andquot;apples of Helandquot; by his wife, whose gift had the...
	volsung_cycle.networklive.org (276 words)

	Poetic Edda
		Svipdag is pushed by his stepmother into finding the love of his life and winning her.
		The subject matter of the heroic lays is Volsung Saga, the hero of which is Sigurdr.
		Other Germanic peoples have also preserved literary or pictorial accounts, and some of them are based on historical characters, Ermanaric (Jormunrekr), the 4th century King of the East Goths and Attila (Atli), King of the Huns (of the 5th century).
	www.sunnyway.com /runes/poetic_edda.html (1250 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Norse mythology -
		The Elder Edda (also known as the Poetic Edda) was probably written down circa 1275 by the scribe Saemund[?].
		Scholars are inclined to think it was written down later than the other Edda, but because of the antiquity of the contents, we know it as the Elder Edda.
		Still, there would be a few survivors, both human and divine, who would populate a new world, to start the cycle anew.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/no/Norse_mythology (3203 words)

	Questing Spirit: PE: Fra Dautha Sinfjotla
		Having treacherously invited Volsung and his ten sons to visit him, Siggeir slew Volsung and captured his sons, who were set in the stocks.
		Aside from the fact that Helgi appears as Sigmund's son by his first wife, Borghild, the only link between the Volsung story proper and that of Helgi is the appearance of Sinfjotli in two of the Helgi poems.
		Sigmund, the son of Volsung, was a king in the land of the Franks; Sinfjotli was his eldest son, the second was Helgi, and the third Hamund.
	www.angelfire.com /stars3/ashtah/edda22.html (1665 words)

	The Rökkr: Angrboda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She brought an apple for the queen, who soon conceived, but the child was not born until he was seven years old; a gestation quirk often found in werewolf folklore.
		The twins became the central characters of the Volsung Cycle, in which Angrboda's nature is clearly inherited by them and the successive Volsung generations.
		Her Volsung lineage includes her grandsons Helgi Hundingsbane (also known as Sunlit Hill, Sharp Sword and Land of Rings), Hamund, and the great hero Sigurd, lover of the Valkyrie Brynhilde (Burning Hel), on whom Wagner's immense operatic cycle The Ring Of The Nibelung is centred.
	www.geocities.com /rokkrx/angrboda.html (2496 words)

	Wagner's Sources - 1
		He invites Volsungs and his sons to visit him; Volsung accepts, though he suspects that Siggeir means him no good.
		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.
	users.utu.fi /hansalmi/jane1.html (2586 words)

	The Edda, Vol. 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Stud, by Winifred Faraday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There are two main elements in the Volsung story: the slaying of the dragon, and the awakening and desertion of Brynhild. ; The latter is brought into close connexion with the former, which becomes the real centre of the action. In the Anglo-Saxon reference, the fragment in Beowulf, the second episode does not appear.
		Schofield, an influence of British legend on the Volsung story. The points in which the story of Sigmund resembles that of Arthur and differs from that of Theseus prove nothing in the face of equally strong points of correspondence between Arthur and Theseus which are absent from the Volsung story.
		The poems of this cycle are four in number—(1) Hjalmar’s Death-song: (2) Angantyr and Hervör; (3) Heidrek’s Riddle-Poem: (4) Angantyr the Younger and Hlod. All are given in the first volume of the Corpus, with translations.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/13008.htm (4002 words)

	General FAQ for humanities.music.composers.wagner
		It is possible that Wagner was primarily concerned with love and power when he wrote his libretto; it is certain that his own understanding of that libretto changed after he had become a disciple of Schopenhauer.
		Volsung is the third of his line, his grandfather Sigi being "reportedly" the son of Odin.
		Some consider the Götterdämmerung of this cycle to be not only the best Wagner recording ever, but the best recording of the 20th century.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/wagnerfaq.htm (13721 words)

	Legends - Sagas and Sea-Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The story of Sigurd the Volsung in turn served as a source for authors from Richard Wagner to William Morris to J.R.R. Tolkien.
		The Story of the Volsungs with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, translated from the Icelandic (Old Norse) by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (from the 1888 Walter Scott Press edition), at the Online Medieval and Classical Library at Berkeley.
		Sources in Medieval Literature of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and William Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung," a thesis by Jane Susanna Ennis of the University of London, excerpted by the author at the Richard Wagner Archive in Finland.
	legends.dm.net /sagas (701 words)

	Questing Spirit: PE: Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar
		There is a certain amount of resemblance between the story of Helgi and Sigrun and that of Sigurth and Brynhild, particularly as the annotator responsible for the prose notes insists that Sigrun was a Valkyrie.
		The first of the three Helgi poems, the lay of Helgi the son of Hjorvarth, is a somewhat distant cousin of the other two.
		The Helgi in question is apparently the same traditional figure, and he leads a naval expedition, but he is not the son of Sigmund, there is no connection with the Volsung cycle, and his wife is Svava, not Sigrun.
	www.angelfire.com /stars3/ashtah/edda19.html (3585 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Morris, William
		Morris's financial position was uncertain, however, and, in 1865, he was forced to sell Red House and move to London to be near to the firm's workshops in Red Lion Square.
		For nearly a decade, he worked on a long cycle of poems based on Classical, medieval, and Icelandic tales, originally intended to be illustrated by Burne-Jones.
		The most famous of his early Icelandic works was a verse version of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs (1877).
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3210 (1427 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Volsung Cycle is the name of a series of Germanic legends based on the same matter as Niebelungenlied, and which were recorded in medieval Iceland.
		The Icelandic matter is, however, greatly expanded with native Scandinavian traditions, such as that of Helgi Hundingsbane, which originally appears to have been a separate tradition, that of the Ylfings.
		This article relating to a European myth or legend is a stub.
	www.4lawschool.com /index.php?title=Volsung_Cycle (68 words)

	L / "S"
		The unvarying lunar cycle gave Sin a special connection with order and wisdom and with immortality.
		Mythology: son of Sigmund and Hiordis, and last of the Volsungs.
		He was the slayer of the dragon Fafnir (Volsung Saga).
	mirrorh.com /s.htm (16362 words)

	châteaux celtes et chimères : épées de légendes
		Neuf des princes de Volsung essayèrent mais seul le plus jeune y parvint.
		Les descendants des Volsung ont des prérogatives quant à l'utilisation de cette épée.
		Dans le cycle arthurien, Excalibur est l'épée de souveraineté et de puissance confiée à Arthur.
	pages.infinit.net /celte/epees.html (3800 words)

	New Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Volsung Valhalla is a place for our dogs who are no longer with us.
		We have owned many excellent Rottweilers in the past who though no longer with us, are not forgotten.
		Valhalla was the home of the God's in the Ring Cycle - what better place for our pets to be.
	www.volsung.co.uk /VolsungValhalla.htm (73 words)

	The Edda, Vol. 2 by Winifred Faraday - Full Text Free Book
		Volsungs, which threatens to swamp all the rest; for one hero after
		Volsung cycle, and such likenesses between the two stories as are not
		Volsung cycle, its greater likeness to the Continental German.
	www.fullbooks.com /The-Edda-Vol-2.html (11429 words)

	Fra Dautha Sinfjotla
		It has been pointed out that the Helgi tradition, coming originally from Denmark, was early associated with that of the Volsungs, which was of German, or rather of Frankish, origin (cf.
		A few editions insert wholly unauthorized names from late paper manuscripts, such as Hroar, Gunnar, or Borgar.
		Sigurth, however, was the fore most of all, and all men call him in the old tales the noblest of mankind and the mightiest leader.
	www.bastset.ca /otherref/eddas/poe21.htm (1644 words)

	Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources for Storytellers: Links
		A guide to characters and places in the Irish mythological cycle (but not the heroic, legendary, or historical material).
		Useful for anyone investigating the stories of ancient cultures of these areas, or their myths and symbolism.
		An informative series of articles which give a good sense of the old traditions.
	www.timsheppard.co.uk /story/tellinglinks.html (14409 words)

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