id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13008 Faraday, L. Winifred The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 .txt text/plain 14307 773 76 The Edda contains poems belonging to the following heroic cycles: the Old English poems and the only Germanic hero who survived for outline is as follows: Sigurd the Volsung, son of Sigmund and brother Eylimi's daughter, had a son Sigurd, and fell in battle against the treasure and the dragon, and Sigurd's battle with Hunding's sons; like Helgi, versions of a race-hero myth. story told by Regin to his foster-son Sigurd, to incite him to slay possessing the hoard: he adopted as his foster-son Sigurd the Volsung, In the German poem, _Gudrun_, the Continental version of this legend Like the Volsung legend it is the story of a curse; and there is a Sigurd and Hild stories, on the contrary, are both, in all versions, in two, the Völund story and the legend of Helgi and Kara; while the The Norse version of the story (Helgi Thorisson) is told in ./cache/13008.txt ./txt/13008.txt