The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J.R.R. Tolkien
Author:J.R.R. Tolkien
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780007323074
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-09-16T23:00:00+00:00
Höfði skemra láti hann inn hára þul
Fara til heljar heðan!
Ãllu gulli þá kná hann einn ráða,
fjölð, þvà er und Fáfni lá.
(Shorter by a head, / let him send the grey-haired wizard / hence to hell! All the gold / then can he possess alone, / the wealth, that under Fáfnir lay.)
46â48 In the Saga Sigurd ate some only of the dragonâs heart, and some he set aside. The purpose of this is seen later in the saga, where it is told that at some time after the wedding of Sigurd and Gudrún âSigurd gave Gudrún some of Fáfnirâs heart to eat, and thereafter she was far more grim than before, and wiser also.â This element is excluded from the Lay; my father considered it âa late piece of machinery to explain Gudrúnâs tangled psychology.â
These verses derive from a prose passage in Fáfnismál, closely similar to that in the Saga, which tells that after the death of Regin Sigurd rode on Grani following the tracks of Fáfnir to his lair, which was standing open. The doors and door-posts were of iron, as were all the beams of the house, which was dug down into the earth (46). Sigurd found there a vast store of gold and filled two great chests with it; he took the Helm of Terror and a golden mailcoat and many other precious things, and he loaded them onto Grani; but the horse would not move until Sigurd leaped upon his back.
49 âtheir wit he knew notâ: this very unusual use of the word âwitâ seems in the context to be equivalent to âmeaningâ, âsignificationâ.
49â54 In Fáfnismà l, after Sigurd has slain Regin and eaten the dragonâs heart he hears the igður again; and these five verses are again in fornyrðislag (see the note to 42â44). There is no indication of how many birds spoke, but the first two verses concern Gudrún, and the last three concern a Valkyrie on the mount of Hindarfell, surrounded by fire, sleeping: Ãdin stabbed her with the thorn, for she had felled a warrior against his command. See the note on 54 below.
My father held that these verses, like the previous âbird-versesâ in fornyrðislag, came from a poem âwhich enlarged on the situation, and probably attempted through the bird-tradition to tell more of the taleâ- a trace of a poem that attempted âto compress a great deal of the story into one situation.â While accepting that âit is useless to discuss which bird says whatâ, he thought the guess that one bird speaks the verses concerning Gudrún and a second those about the Valkyrie âas good as anyâ.
In the Lay he did however retain this second group of âbird-versesâ (or more accurately, composed verses that echo their meaning), and gave them to a raven (those about the Valkyrie) and a finch (those about Gudrún), and interlaced them. But he displaced them to follow Sigurdâs entry into Fáfnirâs lair and his loading Grani with the treasure that he found there, so that these birds
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