Skaldskaparmal, Völsunga Saga and Norna-Gests Thattr (containing another short paraphrase) are all included in Dr.
They are there uncle and nephew, and there is no suggestion of the closer relationship assigned to them by Völsunga Saga, which tells their story in full.
Attempts have been made to claim a German origin for this saga, but in face of the evidence of Beowulf and the Völsunga Saga and the Edda there is, I think with Arnold, little doubt but that its origin was Scandinavian.
In the Völsunga saga is a ghastly story of two men buried alive in a kistvaen.
The Völsunga saga is valuable, as it carries us back to the pre-Christian condition of life in the semi-mythical period.
In the preface to his translation of the "Völsunga Saga," Morris declared his surprise that no version of the story yet existed in English.
Signy in the "Völsunga Saga" is implacable as fate.
The Signy of the V[o,]lsunga Saga has been quoted as a parallel to Hildeburh[492].
It is true that we do not know whether these incidents in Völsunga Saga are based on old tradition or not.
For the earlier portion we have also to use Völsunga Saga and the prose Edda in place of certain poems which are lost (cf.
In the Völsunga Saga[246] we hear of two distinct meetings, firstly when he awakens her from the enchanted sleep (cap.
As instances we may mention the case of Sigmundr and Sinfiötli given in Völsunga Saga, cap.
Hence in order to obtain a full account of the story it is necessary to refer to the Völsunga Saga (see below), which used the lost poems as well as the others.
Fáfnir is called dreki in Völsunga Saga, but he seems always to be represented rather as a reptile than a dragon.
The relationship of these works to the poems may be compared with that of Völsunga Saga to the heroic poems of the Edda.
There is no better description of the Völsunga Saga than the above line, and William Morris gave the English people a literal version of the saga, if mayhap that strenuous paucity might translate the old spirit.
The Völsunga Saga was published in 1870, only two years after Morris had begun to study Icelandic with Eirikr Magnusson.
There are many departures from the Völsunga Saga in this poetic version, and all seem to be accounted for by a desire to impress present-day readers with this story.
The Völsunga Saga gives exactly the same account, but the poetic version of Morris saves the maiden for our respect and admiration.
It may be that the prose epics originated in paraphrases of early poems such as we find, for instance, in the Völsunga Saga, which is a paraphrase of older poems dealing with the story of Sigurthr.
The Völsunga Saga is the Icelandic version of the Nibelungen Lied.
The “Völsunga Saga” is a collection of lays about the early Teutonic heroes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lsunga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
