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	Völsunga Saga
		Völsunga Saga (Volsunga Saga or Volsungasaga) was the story of love and betrayal, adventure and tragedy, expanding over several generations, began with the son of Odin named Sigi.
		The Volsunga Saga was about the heroism and tragedy of two families, the Volsungs and the Giukings (Niflungs or Nibelungs).
		Apart from the Volsunga Saga, many of the story of Sigurd are told in the Thidriks saga (Norwegian) and the heroic cycle of the Poetic Edda (translated by Stephen Grundy).
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/volsunga.html (5249 words)

	The Viking's World-Volsunga Saga
		In a time not so stirring, when emotion was not so fervent or so swift, when there was less to quicken the blood, the story that had before found no fit expression but in verse, could stretch its limbs, as it were, and be told in prose.
		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.
		In very truth the saga is a prose epic, and marked by every quality an epic should possess.
	www.thetroubleshooters.com /viking/Volsunga0001.html (0 words)

	Norse Mythology - Paranormal Phenomenon Hot Spots
		In the Volsunga Saga, Odin punished Brynhild, for assigning the wrong king to die in battle.
		Brynhild vowed that she would only marry the bravest of warriors, so she slept in the Ring of Fire, until the bravest hero could ride through the flame.
		Most information about Norse mythology is preserved in the Old Norse literature, in the Eddas and later sagas; other material appears in commentaries by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and the German writer Adam of Bremen (fl.
	www.hotspotsz.com /Norse-Mythology.html (0 words)

	The Viking's World-Volsunga Saga
		In a time not so stirring, when emotion was not so fervent or so swift, when there was less to quicken the blood, the story that had before found no fit expression but in verse, could stretch its limbs, as it were, and be told in prose.
		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.
		There is no doubt that, in the days when the kingdoms of the Scando-Goths reached from the North Cape to the Caspian, that some earlier great king performed his part; but, after the striking career of Attila, he became the recognised type of a powerful foreign potentate.
	viking.thetroubleshooters.com /Volsunga0001.html (5168 words)

	Volsunga Saga Criticism and Essays
		Heroes and villains of the Volsunga Saga are endowed with superhuman powers and perform mighty and perilous deeds, with the action spanning several generations.
		Within the saga framework, the Volsunga Saga depicts such emotions and impulses as love, jealousy, rage, fear, revenge, and loyalty in a fundamental, raw state that is usually refined or obscured in later societies.
		Deriving from a set of orally-transmitted legends, the Volsunga Saga in the nineteenth century came to be valued as an example of authentic experience at a time when industrial, economic, and social forces seemed to be denaturing humanity.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/volsunga-saga (831 words)

	William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson - Volsunga Saga
		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.
	www.marxists.org /archive/morris/works/1870/volsungs/chapters/chapter0.htm (539 words)

	Picture Saga,Plants,Saga Tree Pictures,Catalog,Trees Encyclopedia
		The greatest of the sagas is the HEIMSKRINGLA, of SNORRI STURLUSON, but Egil's Saga (c.1220), the story of Iceland's greatest skald, or poet, and his lifelong feud with the Norwegian crown, is similar in style.
		Njal's Saga (c.1230-90) both glorifies and repudiates the Saga Age (870-1050), which in this genre is less an account of the past than an idealized recreation of the Sturlung Age (1100-1280) during which the poem was composed.
		The most important legendary tale is Volsunga Saga (c.1250); a major source for Wagner's Ring, this retelling of parts of the Edda shares motifs and characters with the Nibelungenlied.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/plantsindex.asp?counter=319 (228 words)

	William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson - Volsunga Saga - Introduction
		The death of Attila the Hun ('Atli' in the saga), the 5th century defeat of the Burgundians and their king Gundahar ('Gunnar'), the death of Eormenric ('Jormunrek') king of the Goths - all were real, documented events, miraculously preserved in the saga through oral transmission.
		Morris and his Icelandic friend Eirikr Magnusson were the first to translate the Volsunga saga into English; Morris was so enthused by it that he went on to create his own epic retelling of the story, Sigurd the Volsung.
		In the twentieth century the appeal of the Volsunga saga began to fade slightly; the limits of the information the saga contained about the Germanic dark ages were better understood, and the apparently more realistic family sagas of Iceland became more fashionable.
	www.marxists.org /archive/morris/works/1870/volsungs (475 words)

	The SF Site: The King of Vinland's Saga
		The King of Vinland's Saga is a wonderfully rich adventure novel, with memorable characters, a storyline that is faithful to the mediaeval Icelandic sagas, and enough sword- and axe-play to please even the most jaded of adventure readers.
		For those of you who haven't heard of the Icelandic sagas, they're a body of epic tragedies of family feuds, wars and Viking expeditions with doomed warrior superheroes and blood-crazed fighters called berserkers, in a time when men were men and women were proud of it -- very politically incorrect times indeed.
		That the sagas largely inspired the rebirth of heroic fantasy in the late 19th century and were a major influence on The Lord of the Rings, among other fantasy works, is not in doubt.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/king69.htm (1027 words)

	Volsunga Saga Kaaren Grimstad
		Volsunga saga ranks as one of the foremost works of prose written in thirteenth-century Iceland.
		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.
	www.aq-verlag.de /volsunga.html (246 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)

	Amazon.com: Volsunga Saga: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They should not be confused with the Saga itself, although the prose text encapsulates brief quotations from older verse accounts, some of them otherwise lost.
		Note, too, that as "The Story of the Volsungs and the Niblungs: With Certain Songs from the Elder Edda," by William Morris, with or without "Volsunga Saga," as a main or subtitle, the translation tends to be confused with Morris' own epic, "The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs" (1876).
		As indicated, "Volsunga Saga" was translated into English a number of times in the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.com /Volsunga-Saga/dp/B000BH27XU (1706 words)

	Northvegr - Main Site Index
		One of the greatest sagas that many scholars believe was written by a woman, chronicling the lives of Aud the Deep-minded and her descendants.
		The saga of the life and death of the great outlaw poet, Gisli son of Sour.
		Hønsa-Thóri’s Saga is one of six Borgarfjord sagas.
	www.northvegr.org /siteindex.php (3052 words)

	OMACL: The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga): Part of the Second
		OMACL: The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga): Part of the Second
		And so, as folk say, Helgi and Sigrun were born again, and at that tide was he called Helgi the Scathe of Hadding, and she Kara the daughter of Halfdan; and she was a Valkyrie, even as is said in the Lay of Kara.
		(1) Only that part of the song is given which completes the episodes of Helgi Hunding's-bane; the earlier part of the song differs little from the Saga.
	omacl.org /Volsunga/helgi.html (0 words)

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	Overview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The unknown Icelandic author who wrote the saga in the thirteenth century based his prose epic on stories found in far older traditions of Norse heroic poetry.
		The saga describes events from the ancient wars among the kings of the Burgundians, the Huns, and the Goths and treats some of the same legends as the Middle High German epic poem, the Nibelungenlied.
		Translated into many languages, Volsunga Saga became a primary source for writers of fantasy and for those interested in oral legends of historical events and the mythic past of northern Europe.
	www.viking.ucla.edu /volsungs/overview.html (372 words)

	Icelandic Sagas
		All battles and hardships they endured with little regard to their own mortality, usually for the sake of honor, can be rendered in a positively sanguine and decidedly dark humor, not unlike tales of ancient Sparta.
		Njal's Saga is considered the greatest of the Icelandic sagas.
		In the early parts of the 11th century, Iceland converted to Christianity, which is described in detail in some of the Sagas, including Njal's Saga, where the title character has much to do with the decision, though such a depiction is probably mostly fictional.
	phwibbles.com /sagas (1630 words)

	The Great Lacuna
		For the remainder we are dependent on the paraphrase of the Volsunga saga (Chaps.
		Unfortunately scholars have found it impossible to arrive at any agreement about what the Regius pages contained, because the author of the Volsunga saga has demonstrably rounded out his narrative with passages from the Thidhreks saga and paraphrases of The Lay of Gripir.
		Brynhild rejects all attempts on the part of Sigurth to console her: the Volsunga saga, Chap.
	www.angelfire.com /on/Wodensharrow/lacuna.html (321 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.
		As noted, quest elements within the saga include the rites of passage throughpaternal search, and here this is also coupled with desire to revenge losthonor as a goal marker on that path.
		Beyond the surface, beyond the hero and dragon motif itself, a deeperpsychological interpretation of the Volsunga Saga can be identified as thedefeat of the subtle, destructive inner evils of the soul, which the runiccorrelation with the slab and cairn illustrate.
	www.webcom.com /~lstead/June94/volsung.html (3069 words)

	Legends - Sagas and Sea-Kings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The nineteenth century saw a real vogue for the saga tales, and the English William Morris and the German Richard Wagner represent the most important resurgence of the Eddic material and spirit...
		William Morris's 1870 translation of the Volsunga Saga was the crowning achievement of his translations from the Norse sagas, and in turn fathered his lyric poem Sigurd (1877), a retelling of the Saga with elements from the Nibelungenlied contemporaneous with Wagner's Ring cycle.
		Morris's saga translations also influenced his Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse (1889).
	legends.duelingmodems.com /sagas/index.html (701 words)

	Icelandic Saga based campaign (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I'm working on creating a world based in the actual sagas - Volsunga Saga, Njals Saga, Gisli Saga, etc. I'm not interested in "big norse guys smash stuff, have magic helms and runes" vikings; besides, vikings were NOT an ethnicity, as being a viking was more a profession (or perhaps a passtime).
		Njals Saga) and the Fornalda Sagas (legendary sagas, i.e.
		The fact is that I can't think of a single "magical" saga hero - Njal had precongnisent dreams, characters were fated and cursed, but even outside of the primary heroes there is very little magic apart from seers and curses.
	www.indie-rpgs.com /viewtopic.php?t=6247 (4069 words)

	inspiration - Musings
		I read the Volsunga Saga a few months ago because VM quoted a bit from it in his painting "Volsung" (Sign Language, p.
		The Volsunga Saga was one source Tolkien drew on in writing The Hobbit and LOTR, and it was also one of the sources for Wagner's great "Ring Cycle" operas.
		Viggo has said that when he was a child he read (or people read to him) the sagas and that although he hadn't yet read Tolkien when he took the Aragorn role, he identified with it because of his background in the sagas.
	www.musingsofviggo.net /mb/index.php?showtopic=308 (2123 words)

	Book reviews page 10 - The Tolkien Society
		The Grani of the Volsunga Saga has many links with Shadowfax - he is a requested gift, he has not been ridden before, he forms a particular bond with his master, he is grey, and exceptional, and he has some real, if tenuous, connection with the old world of the gods.
		It can only be compromising to offer a story as an "influence" on a later writer and to introduce into that story terms which not only do not exist in the original, but are suggestively similar to those used by the later writer.
		In the Volsunga Saga gods and dragons mix comfortably with moral heroes; while in the courtly world of the Nibelungen epic, gods and dragons have no real place.
	www.tolkiensociety.org /tolkien/book_reviews_10.html (1719 words)

	Dark Age of Camelot WarCry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Morgan Llywelyn writes historical fiction, so it's not "exactly as it happened", but it's a very good way for people wanting to know more about Hibernia to immerse themselves in how it actually was.
		Volsunga Saga is one of the greatest Norse sagas.
		The Nibelungenlied, though German, is derived from the Volsunga Saga.
	daoc.warcry.com /index.php/content/multimedia/inspiration (493 words)

	Volsunga saga Summary
		In the following essay, Byock traces the historical antecedents for the characters in the Volsunga Saga and examines its influence on the works of Richard Wagner and J. Tolkien.
		In the following essay, Spatt presents a comparative analysis of the Volsunga Saga and Morris's late-nineteenth-century epic Sigurd the Volsung.
		Examines feminism and the role and status of women in the medieval epics The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki and The Saga of the Volsungs.
	www.bookrags.com /Volsunga_saga (173 words)

	Sigurd information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr, German: Siegfried) was a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Völsunga saga.
		Sigmund dies in battle when he attacks Odin, and Odin shatters Sigmund's sword.
		(In Volsung saga, it is not clear that Brynhild is a Valkyrie or in any way supernatural.)
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Sigurd (1240 words)

	Volsunga saga - Definition, explanation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German and is very similar to the Volsunga Saga.
		on William Morris and Eirikr Magnussons translation of Volsunga Saga.
		Public domain e-text based on William Morris and Eirikr Magnussons translation of Volsunga Saga.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/v/vo/volsunga_saga.php (209 words)

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