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Saga of the Volsungs

Saga of the Volsungs. Volsunga saga composed in Iceland in present form 1260-1270. Oldest manuscript from 1400.Saga style, much shorter and more intensive than the verse epic Nibelungenlied.Many inconsistencies exist between the Eddic poems and the two remaining epic versions.In addition to the

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Saga of the Volsungs

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    1. Saga of the Volsungs Combination of Myth, Legend and History. Most popular of the Icelandic fornaldar sagas. Action set in Age of Migrations (375 - 453 AD) Material also treated in the medieval German epic, das Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) – an Austrian version from the other corner of the Germanic world. Saga based on oral lore roughly 800 years old. Direct sources for Volsunga saga are the poems of the Poetic Edda (recommended reading, 114-242).

    3. Saga of the Volsungs Why was the work so famous? National cultural identity (esp. in Norway) Dynastic considerations / divine legitimacy Epic tragedy of monumental proportions Age of Myth, heroic ancestry Many representations in Norse art Influence of the Volsunga saga Richard Wagner, W. Morris, J.R.R. Tolkien

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