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The Völsunga Saga

55 chapters · complete text

Contents

Introduction
Translators' Preface
Of Sigi, the Son of Odin
Of the Birth of Volsung
Of the Sword that Sigmund Drew from the Branstock
How King Siggeir Wedded Signy
Of the Slaying of King Volsung
Of How Signy Sent Her Children to Sigmund
Of the Birth of Sinfjotli
The Death of King Siggeir and of Signy
How Helgi Won King Hodbrod
The Ending of Sinfjotli
Of King Sigmund's Last Battle
Of the Shards of the Sword Gram
Of the Birth and Waxing of Sigurd
Regin's Tale of His Brothers
Of the Welding Together of the Shards of Gram
The Prophecy of Gripir
Of Sigurd's Avenging of Sigmund His Father
Of the Slaying of the Worm Fafnir
Of the Slaying of Regin
Of Sigurd's Meeting with Brynhild on the Mountain
More Wise Words of Brynhild
Of the Semblance and Array of Sigurd
Sigurd Comes to Hlymdale
Sigurd Sees Brynhild at Hlymdale
Of the Dream of Gudrun
Sigurd Among the Giukings
The Wooing of Brynhild
How the Queens Held Angry Converse at the Bathing
Of Brynhild's Great Grief and Mourning
Of the Slaying of Sigurd
Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead
Of the Ending of Brynhild
Gudrun Wedded to Atli
Atli Bids the Giukings to Him
The Dreams of the Wives of the Giukings
Of the Journey of the Giukings to King Atli
The Battle in the Burg of King Atli
Of the Slaying of the Giukings
The End of Atli and His Kin and Folk
How Gudrun Cast Herself into the Sea
Of the Wedding and Slaying of Swanhild
Gudrun Sends Her Sons to Avenge Swanhild
The Latter End of All the Kin of the Giukings
Appendix: The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane
Appendix: The Lay of Sigrdrifa
Appendix: The Short Lay of Sigurd
Appendix: The Hell-Ride of Brynhild
Appendix: Fragments of the Lay of Brynhild
Appendix: The Second Lay of Gudrun
Appendix: The Song of Atli
Appendix: The Whetting of Gudrun
Appendix: The Lay of Hamdir
Appendix: The Lament of Oddrun

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