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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of th
William Morris
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now this is the first book of the life and death of sigurd the volsung, and therein is told of the birth of him, and of his dealings with regin the master of masters, and of his deeds in the waste places of the earth.
Of the birth of Sigurd the son of Sigmund. Peace lay on the land of the Helper and the house of Elf his son;There merry men went bedward when their tide of toil was done,
And glad was the dawn's awakening, and the noon-tide fair and glad:
There no great store had the franklin, and enough the hireling had;
And a child might go unguarded the length and breadth of the land
With a purse of gold at his girdle and gold rings on his hand.
'Twas a country of cunning craftsmen, and many a thing they wrought,
That the lands of storm desired, and the homes of warfare sought.
But men deemed it o'er-well warded by more than its stems of fight,
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It is easy enough to find a summary of this epic poem in another review, Wikipedia, etc. Suffice it to say that it is Morris's redaction of the Volsunga Saga, with too many twists (incest, poisonings, burnings, shape-changing) and interesting characters (Nibelungs, werewolves, dragon, dwarves) to li
Morris skriver vackert, handlingen följer i stort Völsungasagan fram till Gudruns hämnd där Völsungasagans historia smällts samman med Nibelungenlied. Morris har ett öga för att spara och lyfta de mest sköna och storslagna motiven. Stilmässigt ligger Morris långt ifrån Eddans ofta korta nästan karga
This 1876 epic poem retells in large part the story of the Nibelungenleid, the 13th century German saga, which would also quite loosely be adapted by Wagner in his Ring cycle of operas. Being familiar with both of these, it was sometimes hard for me to keep the developments of this poem clear in my
Quite an achievement, keeping up the metre and rhyme over so many thousands of lines, it really bounces along. The story isn't always quite clear - I had to go back and reread a few times to sort out who was who, especially in the first book. It's fascinating to see what Morris made of essentially t
This is really quite good epic norse poetry, it does go on a bit too long towards the end but overall better than Beowulf and a real treat for any Lord of the Rings fans. You can see the origin of Aragorn and Arwen as well as Eowyn, Gandalf, the ring and Isildur's sword.
Of course the vast differenc
Morris took the Völsunga saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose mixture of heroic deeds, vendetta, court intrigue, the revenge of queens, dragon slaying and a cursed ring, and using this as his source turned it into a powerful and moving English epic poem. I enjoyed this far more than I thought I