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Bibliotheca Germanica Series Nova - Volume 3

Kaaren Grimstad (Ed.)

 

Volsunga Saga / The Saga of the Volsungs

Bilingual Edition (Icelandic/English)

The old-icelandic text from the medieval manuscript (Ny kgl. Samling 1824b 4to; ca. 1400) with an English translation, an introduction and notes.
2000, 2nd edition 2005, 3rd edition 2019

245 p. 49,- €
ISBN: 978-3-922441-67-0

 

Volsunga saga ranks as one of the foremost works of prose written in thirteenth-century Iceland.
       
A highly dramatic rendering of tales from the remote Germanic past, the saga presents the Old Norse version of the story of the Volsungs, Gjukungs, and Budlungs, three families fated to destroy each other.
A continental German version of this history is recounted in the well-known Middle High German epic the Nibelungenlied. The author composed the saga using earlier cycles of heroic poems, imbedding in his prose text a number of poetic stanzas and one nearly complete poem that we also have recorded in a thirteenth-century collection of poetry known as the Poetic Edda. In the nineteenth century the story was recreated as a major cultural document by Richard Wagner in his cycle of epic music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, inspired by his reading of Volsunga saga.
       
This edition presents a new English translation of the saga with a diplomatic transcription of the Old Norse text, based on the only vellum manuscript Nks 1824 b, 4° from 1400, on facing pages. The introduction provides the reader with an analysis of the saga's structure and thematic content.
       
Kaaren Grimstad studied at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University, where she received her Ph. D, Since 1970 she has taught Swedish and Old Norse language and literature at the University of Minnesota.
She has previously edited Elucidarius in Old Norse Translation (Reykjavik, 1989).

 

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