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The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrn Trade paper - 2010
by Tolkien, J.R.R
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This previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written during the 1920s and 1930s, makes available the author's extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Volsung and The Fall of the Niflungs.
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- Title The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrn
- Author Tolkien, J.R.R
- Binding Trade Paper
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Date 2010-09-10
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00LD9X_ns
- ISBN 9780547394572
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
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Summary
Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood.
In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún.
The Lay of Gudrún recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.
