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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn, J. R. R. Tolkien,
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- ISBN
- 9780007317257
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
- Item Height
- 228mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fairy Tale
- Topic
- Poetry
- Item Width
- 149mm
- Item Weight
- 1090g
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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This de luxe collector's edition features the first edition text and contains a facsimile page of Tolkien's original manuscript. The book is quarterbound with a special gold motif stamped on the front board and is presented in a matching slipcase. Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Voelsungs and The New Lay of Gudrun. In the Lay of the Voelsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress, mother of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrun his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrun. In the Lay of Gudrun her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge. Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work the Voelsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda. - Christopher Tolkien
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HarperCollins
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9780007317257
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Book Title
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fairy Tale
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
149mm
Item Weight
1090g
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Editor
Christopher Tolkien
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United Kingdom
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