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Vǫlsunga saga. The Saga of the Volsungs

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Edited and Translated with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by R. G. Finch.

Author(s): Ronald G. Finch (ed., transl.)
Series: Nelson’s Icelandic Texts
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Year: 1965

Language: English, Old Norse
Pages: 220
City: London

Introduction
1. The Volsungs and Wagner vii
2. "Fornaldarsǫgur" and "Vǫlsunga saga" viii
3. "Vǫlsunga saga" and its analogues ix
4. The basic themes, the major variations and their significance xiii
5. History, myth and fairytale xxxii
6. The immediate literary sources of VS and the date and place of its compilation xxxvi
7 The manuscripts xxxviii
Editions of "Vǫlsunga saga" xxxix
Bibliography and Abbreviations xl
Icelandic Text verso 1
English Translation recto 1
Appendices
A. To visit Odin 8i
B. Aslaug and Heimir verso and recto 82
C. The general correspondence between "Vǫlsunga saga" and its extant literary sources 85
Glossary of Technical Terms 91
Index 95