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| Title | : | The Saga of the Volsungs |
| Author | : | Anonymous |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 145 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 1999 by Penguin Classics (first published 1275) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fantasy. Mythology. History. Historical. Medieval. Poetry |
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Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet it is also set in a very human world, incorporating strands from the oral narratives of the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun and other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire. One of the great books of world literature, the saga is an unforgettable tale of princely jealousy, unrequited love, greed and vengeance. With its cursed treasure of the Rhine, sword reforged and magic ring of power, it was a major influence for writers including William Morris and J. R. R. Tolkien and for Wagner's Ring cycle.Particularize Books Conducive To The Saga of the Volsungs
| Original Title: | Völsunga saga : the story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with certain songs from the Elder Edda. |
| ISBN: | 0140447385 (ISBN13: 9780140447385) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sigurd, Regin |
| Setting: | Worms(Germany) |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 5117 Users | 310 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books The Saga of the Volsungs
This book is very rough and very wild. It brings together story elements from several sources, and they have not been assembled in a fully rational manner. If you want plenty of examples of valor, bullheadedness, and bloody vengeance, it's all in here. The text is very laconic... an entire war may be referred to in a couple of sentences, with one or two pertinent points mentioned. Odin makes many appearances, and arbitrarily helps then hinders, grants gifts, breaks them, and generally leadsWhen in middle school, I remember coming across two books in the local public library that I placed in my "read later" bucket. I finished the first, Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, earlier this year. Now I've finished the second, The Volsunga Saga. As you can tell, I'm just a bit slow tending to my "to-do" lists. This is a quick read, one filled with bloodshed, treachery and mythical creatures. Can you name the Norns? I'm glad I got around to checking this one
How many movies could Peter Jackson make this 110 page book into? Probably at least 3. It goes through 5 generations in 2 pages!
A thoughtful and inspiring piece of Nordic myths and times. I am still enraptured in the characters and the morals that were subtly put forward in the text. It seems, although the author is unknown, that Iceland was the source for a great deal of Norse lore. At first, I thought this a bit fast-paced and had little character development, but in the beginning it was mostly exploring the genealogy of the people in order to get to the main characters developed later. It did take me a while to read
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r...Description: Drawn from one of the best known Icelandic sagas, a powerful new dramatisation of the tragic story of Sigurd Volsung and Brynhild, the woman he loves, With an introduction by the author. By Melissa MurraySigurd ..... David SturzakerRegin ..... David SchofieldGunnar ..... Carl PrekoppHod ..... Gerard McDermottGudrun ..... Lyndsey MarshalBrynhild ..... Abbie AndrewsSadhbh ..... Isabella InchbaldArvid ..... Clive HaywardAlf ..... Rupert
oh hai VikingsI have a great love for Vikings, who are terrific insulters and murderers. Here's the type of thing Vikings do: this one guy Sinfjotli is like "This drink is poison, I can tell," and the other guy's all "That's okay, you can filter the poison out through your mustache," and Sinfjotli's like "Good plan" and then he dies because that's not how mustaches work. You can't read enough of stories like that.Sinfjotli is one of the many ill-fated men of the Volsung line, and this gets
What is presented here is a tale of Scandinavian folklore, a tale about several generations of the Völsung clan, tales passed down by word of mouth for centuries. An epic poem, it was first drawn on stone in 1030 A.D in Ramsund, Sweden, as a pictorial carving with the addition of rune lettering. In the thirteenth century it came to be written down in Icelandic.It is a tale of myth and magic with animals whose words are understood by man, dragons, magical potions and Gods mingling with human
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