[3] niðr Vǫlsunga ‘the descendant of the Vǫlsungar <legendary family> [RULER]’: Vǫlsungr was the father of Sigmundr and the progenitor of the legendary family of the Vǫlsungar (see HHund II, prose (NK 150), Hyndl 25-6 and Vǫlsunga saga). For genealogies that trace the lineage of the Norwegian kings to Vǫlsungr, see Flat 1860-8, I, 25-6 and Hb 1892-6, 505-6.
References
- Bibliography
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Vǫlsunga saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 790. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10832> (accessed 26 April 2024)