Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel, The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, and Elder Edda selections.
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Contents
167 sections- Beowulf
- The Song of Roland
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- Part I: The Treason of Ganelon
- Saragossa. The Council of King Marsil
- At Cordres. Carlemaine’s Council
- The Embassy and Crime of Ganelon
- Part II: The Prelude of the Great Battle
- Roncesvalles
- Roland’s Pride
- The Mellay
- The Horn
- Death of Olivier
- The Last Benediction of the Archbishop
- The Death of Roland
- Part III: The Reprisals
- The Chastisement of the Saracens
- The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- The Room of Cormac Condlongas
- The Room of Cormac’s Nine Comrades
- The Room of the Picts, this
- The Room of Conaire’s Majordomo
- The Room of Mac cecht, Conaire’s battle-soldier
- The Room of the Fomorians
- The Room of Conall Cernach
- The Room of Conaire Himself
- Le fri flaith son of Conaire, whose likeness this is
- The Room of the Cupbearers
- The Room of the Swineherds
- The Room of the Principal Charioteers
- The Room of Cuscrad Son of Conchobar
- The Room of the Under-Charioteers
- The Room of the Englishmen
- The Room of the Equerries
- The Room of the Judges
- The Room of the Conjurers
- The Room of the Three Lampooners
- The Room of the Badbs
- The Room of the Kitcheners
- The Room of the Servant-Guards
- The Room of the King’s Guardsmen
- The Room of Nia and Bruthne, Conaire’s Two Waiters
- The Room of Sencha and Dubthach and Gobniu Son of Lurgnech
- The Room of the Three Manx Giants
- The Room of the Three Champions from the Elfmounds
- The Room of the Doorwards
- The Room of Fer caille
- The Room of the Three Sons of Bálthis of Britain
- The Room of the Mimes
- The Room of the Cupbearers
- The Room of Nár the Squinter-with-the-left-eye
- The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
- Translator’s Preface
- The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
- The Names of Those Who Are Most Noteworthy in This Story
- A Prologue in Verse
- I. Of Sigi, the Son of Odin
- II. Of the Birth of Volsung, the Son of Rerir, Who was the Son of Sigi
- III. Of the Sword that Sigmund, Volsung’s son, drew from the Branstock
- IV. How King Siggeir wedded Signy, and bade King Volsung and his son to Gothland
- V. Of the Slaying of King Volsung
- VI. Of how Signy sent the Children of her and Siggeir to Sigmund
- VII. Of the Birth of Sinfjotli the Son of Sigmund
- VIII. The Death of King Siggeir and of Signy
- IX. How Helgi the son of Sigmund, won King Hodbrod and his Realm, and wedded Sigrun
- X. The Ending of Sinfjotli, Sigmund’s Son
- XI. Of King Sigmund’s last Battle, and of how he must yield up his Sword Again
- XII. Of the Shards of the Sword Gram, and how Hjordis went to King Alf
- XIII. Of the Birth and Waxing of Sigurd Fafnir’s-Bane
- XIV. Regin’s Tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari’s Hoard
- XV. Of the Welding together of the Shards of the Sword Gram
- XVI. The Prophecy of Grifir
- XVII. Of Sigurd’s Avenging of Sigmund his Father
- XVIII. Of the Slaying of the Worm Fafnir
- XIX. Of the Slaying of Regin, Son of Hreidmar
- XX. Of Sigurd’s Meeting with Brynhild on the Mountain
- XXI. More Wise Words of Brynhild
- XXII. Of the Semblance and Array of Sigurd Fafnir’s-Bane
- XXIII. Sigurd comes to Hlymdale
- XXIV. Sigurd sees Brynhild at Hlymdale
- XXV. Of the Dream of Gudrun, Giuki’s Daughter
- XXVI. Sigurd comes to the Giukings and is Wedded to Gudrun
- XXVII. The Wooing of Brynhild
- XXVIII. How the Queens Held Angry Converse Together at the Bathing
- XXIX. Of Brynhild’s Great Grief and Mourning
- XXX. Of the Slaying of Sigurd Fafnir’s-bane
- XXXI. Of the Lamentation of Gudrun Over Sigurd Dead, as it is Told in the Ancient Songs
- XXXII. Of the Ending of Brynhild
- XXXIII. Gudrun Wedded to Atli
- XXXIV. Atli bids the Giukings to Him
- XXXV. The Dreams of the Wives of the Giukings
- XXXVI. Of the Journey of the Giukings to King Atli
- XXXVII. The Battle in the Burg of King Atli
- XXXVIII. Of the Slaying of the Giukings
- XXXIX. The End of Atli and His Kin and Folk
- XL. How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
- XLI. Of the Wedding and Slaying of Swanhild
- XLII. Gudrun sends her Sons to Avenge Swanhild
- XLIII. The Latter End of all the Kin of the Giukings
- Certain Songs from the Elder Edda which Deal with the Story of the Volsungs
- Part of the Second Lay of Helgi Hunding’s-Bane
- The Lay Called the Short Lay of Sigurd
- The Hell-Ride of Brynhild
- Fragments of the Lay of Brynhild
- The Second or Ancient Lay of Gudrun
- The Song of Atli
- The Whetting of Gudrun
- The Lay of Hamdir
- The Lament of Oddrun