With Excerpts From the Poetic Edda — By Anonymous
Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the thirteenth century A.D., by an unknown hand. However, most of the material is based substantially on previous works, some centuries older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse poetry known as the “Poetic Edda”.
The text of this edition is based on that published as “The Story of the Volsungs”, translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (Walter Scott Press, London, 1888).
Douglas B. Killings
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: RECOMMENDED READING—
Anonymous: “Kudrun”, Translated by Marion E. Gibbs & Sidney Johnson (Garland Pub., New York, 1992).
Anonymous: “Nibelungenlied”, Translated by A.T. Hatto (Penguin Classics, London, 1962).
Saxo Grammaticus: “The First Nine Books of the Danish History”, Translated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894; Reissued by the Online Medieval and Classical Library as E-Text OMACL #28, 1997).
APPENDIX: EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.
PART OF THE SECOND LAY OF HELGI HUNDINGS-BANE (1)
PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA (1)
THE LAY CALLED THE SHORT LAY OF SIGURD.
THE HELL-RIDE OF BRYNHILD.
FRAGMENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD
THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN.
THE SONG OF ATLI.
THE WHETTING OF GUDRUN.
THE LAY OF HAMDIR
THE LAMENT OF ODDRUN.