[All]: The stanza is incomplete and beyond reconstruction, yet different attempts have been made to restore it (see below). All these attempts are purely conjectural, but the reference to the serpent, apparently wounded by a sword, suggests that the hero mentioned in sts 3-4 was Sigurðr (see Note to st. 3 [All]). Sigurðr is the protagonist of the eddic Sigurðr cycle (see Gríp, Reg, Fáfn, Sigrdr, Brot, Sigsk, Guðr I-II, Helr, as well as Vǫlsunga saga and Þiðr) and the Old Norse counterpart of Sigfried of the Middle High German Nibelungenlied. For his slaying of the dragon Fáfnir, see SnE 1998, I, 45-7, Fáfn and Vǫls chs 18-20.
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- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Vǫls = Vǫlsunga saga.
- Þiðr = Þiðreks saga af Bern.
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- 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 23 April 2024)