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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (Vǫls) 3VIII (Vǫls 23)

[All]: In Vǫls Sigurðr is the son of Sigmundr, member of the Volsung family and a descendant of Óðinn, but he is likely to have had a prior legendary existence as a hero figure, independent of the saga’s presentation of Volsung family history, as witnessed by a number of the poems of the Poetic Edda that deal with his life-history and by C13th Middle High German poems, including the Nibelungenlied (cf. Vǫls 1965, ix-xi).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Vǫls 1965 = Finch, R. G., ed. and trans. 1965. The Saga of the Volsungs. London: Nelson.
  3. Vǫls = Vǫlsunga saga.

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