The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun

The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun by J.R.R Tolkien


ISBN
9780007317233
Published
Released
01 / 12 / 2009
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
384
Dimensions
149 x 228 x 35mm

The Legend of Sigurd and GudrC:n tells in narrative verse the saga of a Norse hero, Sigurd, prophesied to defend the gods of Valhalla against the Ragnarok, the apocalypse, and his adventures that see him battle a mighty dragon for its hoard of treasure, win the love of a Valkyrie, and suffer at the hands of treachery; and the events following his death whereby his widow, Gudrun, takes bloody revenge upon the Niflungs who betrayed him. Since first encountering as a boy the myths and legends of the mysterious Viking North, captured in the 10th century poetry of the Elder Edda and in William Morrisb2 translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, J.R.R. Tolkien had been captivated by the epic tales of giants, heroes, dwarves, monsters, magic and dragons. But during the following centuries some of the original lays, or poems, had been lost and much of Sigurdb2s story become corrupted; Morrisb2 translation was thus based on incomplete and significantly altered prose. Tolkien therefore decided to attempt to unify the various original lays by recreating the missing parts of Sigurdb2s story, and write them as narrative poems using modern English but in the Old Norse style. These b2New Laysb2 of Sigurd and GudrC:n, comprising between them over 500 stanzas, were completed in the 1930s but have never before been published or quoted from. They are accompanied by an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, and commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.
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