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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun Hardcover - 2009

by J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien (ed.)

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Firts edition, first printing (with correct number line with "1"). A fine, fresh, unread example in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 377 pp. Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkein composed his own version (here published for the first time) of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two related poems to which he gave the titles "The New Lay of the Volsungs" and "The New Lay of Gudrun". With a foreword by Christopher Tolkein and including the extensive introductory section, the "Elder Edda" by J.R.R. Tolkein and additional introductory notes.
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

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"First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, 2009."

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