The Legend of BrynhildCornell University Press, 1980 - 270 ページ Brynhild is the paramount figure of Germanic legend, but she has been subordinated more often than not to the male object of her passion. Her story is thus normally referred to as the legend of Sigurd or, in German circles, the legend of Siegfried. The title of this book is intended to make the point that the legend sings principally of the woman, not the man, a view that I argue specifically at the beginning of Chapter 2. My task has been to examine the sometimes fragmentary and always refractory medieval accounts of Brynhild with a view to extracting from them a better appreciation of her personality. This task made it necessary to reopen the long-standing debate on the textual relationships of the major literary documents (Poetic Edda, Vǫlsunga saga, Pioreks saga, and Nibelungenlied). As a consequence the book has become a general reassessment of the so-called Nibelung question, a good part of which it attempts to summarize and elucidate. |
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Adventure Atlakviða Atli Atli's ballad betrothal to Brynhild Boer Boor Brot brothers Brünhildenlied Brynhild Brynhild and Sigurd Brynhildar táttur Buðli Bumke Burgundians Codex Regius crossed the flame Daurel dialogue dragon Eddic epic Fáfnir Fáfnismál Finnur Jónsson flame wall Forna fornyrðislag German Giselher Gjúki's Gjukungs gold Gotpormr grief Grimhild Grípisspá Guð Gudrun Guðrúnarkviða Guðrúnarkviða II Gunnarr Gunther Hagen hall Helreið Helreið Brynhildar Hermann Schneider Heusler Hogni Hortlied Hreiðmarr hunt husband imitation of Ältere killing King Kleine Schriften Kralik Kriemhilt legend Lehmgrübner Lieder der Lücke ljóðaháttr marriage marry Meiri Meiri poet Mímir motif murder narrative Neckel Nibelung Nibelungenlied poet Nibelungensage und Nibelungenlied Norse oaths Oddrúnargrátr Panzer passage poem poet's prior betrothal prose quarrel queens Reginn Reginsmál scene Siegfried Siegfried's Sigmund Sigrdrífa Sigrdrífumál Sigurd Sigurðar saga Sigurðarkviða Skamma Snorra Edda stanza story sword texts tion tradition treasure variant Vaterrachelied vengeance Volsunga saga Wieselgren wooing of Brynhild Þiðreks saga