Volsung

Now no otherwise it goes with the queen's sickness than heretofore, nor may she be the lighter of her child, and six winters wore away with the sickness still heavy on her; so that at the last she feels that she may not live long; wherefore now she bade cut the child from out of her; and it was done even as she bade; a man-child was it, and great of growth from his birth, as might well be; and they say that the youngling kissed his mother or ever she died; but to him is a name given, and he is called Volsung; and he was king over Hunland in the room of his father.

The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, by William Morris Morris's cod-epic poem features a Norse hero called Sigurd who forges a mighty sword in order to attack the dragon Fafnir, who guards a priceless hoard of gold.

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It means finding heroic implications in Lawrence's reading of William Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung," a "Victorian-Icelandic-Anglo-Saxon-German epic poem."

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It means finding heroic implications in Lawrence's reading of William Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung," a "Victorian-Icelandic-Anglo-Saxon-German epic poem."

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It means finding heroic implications in Lawrence's reading of William Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung," a "Victorian-Icelandic-Anglo-Saxon-German epic poem."

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But first we share a spellbinding scene between the Volsung twins-become-lovers, a clarion-clear Siegmund (Christopher Ventris) and a heartbreaking Sieglinde (Eva-Marie Westbroek).

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It means finding heroic implications in Lawrence's reading of William Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung," a "Victorian-Icelandic-Anglo-Saxon-German epic poem."

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She realized that many of the best warriors among the Einherjar--like Volsung, and Sigurd the Worm-Slayer--were descendants of Odin, from a line established on earth in the early dawning of man.

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Early versions of “Sigurd the Volsung” were available to Tolkien, including the “Völsunga saga” (likely written down in 13th-century Iceland), passages from “Elder Edda” mythology, and the German “Nibelungenlied.”

An Old Norse Legend, Courtesy of J.R.R. Tolkien Marjorie Burns 2009

And in 1877, William Morris retold the story in 392 pages of verse as “Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs.”

An Old Norse Legend, Courtesy of J.R.R. Tolkien Marjorie Burns 2009