Volsunga Saga
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978-3-922441-67-0 (ISBN)
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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. A continental German version of this history is recounted in the well-known Middle High German epic the Nibelungenlied.
Kaaren Grimstad studied at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University, where she received her Ph. D, Since 1970 she has taught Swedish and Old Norse language and literature at the University of Minnesota. She has previously edited Elucidarius in Old Norse Translation (Reykjavik, 1989).
1. Chapter (beginning) This story begins with a man named Sigi. Another man, known as Skadi, is also mentioned in the story. He was wealthy and powerful, but Sigi was the more nobly born of the two because, according to the recollection of his contemporaries, he was descended from the gods and said to be the son of Odin. Skadi owned a slave who must be mentioned at this point in the story. Called Bredi, the slave is skilled in everything he was asked to do. In every respect he was fully as accomplished as those valued more highly and even more accomplished than some. We are told that Sigi went hunting one day together with the slave, and they hunt until nightfall. And when they compare their catch in the evening, it comes to light that Bredi had bagged much more game than Sigi. Flying into a rage over this, Sigi says he is astonished that a mere slave should best him in the hunt - whereupon he rushes at Bredi, kills him and then hides the corpse in a snowdrift. When Sigi comes home that evening, he says that Bredi had ridden away from him into the forest - "and he was soon out of my sight, and I don't know what became of him." Skadi doubts Sigi's report and suspects foul play - that Sigi has probably killed the slave - and sends men to look for Bredi. The search ends in their discovery of the body in the snowdrift. Skadi proclaimed that henceforth that drift should be called Bredi's Drift, and people have done so ever since, using the name for big snowdrifts in general. Then it surfaces that Sigi in fact killed the slave and hid the body. He is declared an outlaw and may no longer remain at home with his father. Odin escorts him out of the country to a far distant shore and left him where warships were waiting. Sigi now goes raiding with the troops his father gave him before they parted. He was victorious in battle and eventually won a kingdom for himself. He married a noble woman and became a wealthy and powerful king. He ruled over Hunland and is a great warrior. He and his wife have a son named Rerir, who grows up in his father's household. The boy soon becomes tall, strong, and able.
| Reihe/Serie | Bibliotheca Germanica. Series nova ; 3 |
|---|---|
| Mitarbeit |
Anpassung von: Kaaren Grimstad |
| Übersetzer | Kaaren Grimstad |
| Verlagsort | Saarbrücken |
| Sprache | englisch; Icelandic |
| Maße | 150 x 205 mm |
| Gewicht | 350 g |
| Einbandart | Paperback |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben |
| Schlagworte | Altisländisch • Saga • Volsungen |
| ISBN-10 | 3-922441-67-X / 392244167X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-922441-67-0 / 9783922441670 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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