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The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegried the Dragon Slayer : Germanic Mythology
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegried the Dragon Slayer : Germanic Mythology
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The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegried the Dragon-Slayer
Retold by Dora Ford Madeley
With Twleve Illustrations by Stephen Reid
Published by George G. Harrap, London, 1910. Hardback, 8vo, decorative cloth binding with colour plate pasted to the upper board. pp vii, 166, [ii]. With 12 wonderful colour plates by Stephen Reid.
CONDITION
A good copy. The cloth binding is good with light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine but overall is in good condition. Endpapers a little brown with age. Inner joints are sound with no cracking. All contents present including all 12 colour plates. Pages clean throughout. Overall a very good copy.
Sigurd, or Siegfried is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon—known in some Old Norse sources as Fáfnir—and who was later murdered. It is possible he was inspired by one or more figures from the Frankish Merovingian dynasty, with Sigebert I being the most popular contender. Older scholarship sometimes connected him with Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. He may also have a purely mythological origin. Sigurd's story is first attested on a series of carvings, including runestones from Sweden and stone crosses from the British Isles, dating from the 11th century.
In both the Norse and continental Germanic tradition, Sigurd is portrayed as dying as the result of a quarrel between his wife (Gudrun/Kriemhild) and another woman, Brunhild, whom he has tricked into marrying the Burgundian king Gunnar/Gunther. His slaying of a dragon and possession of the hoard of the Nibelungen is also common to both traditions. In other respects, however, the two traditions appear to diverge. The most important works to feature Sigurd are the Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda. He also appears in numerous other works from both Germany and Scandinavia, including a series of medieval and early modern Scandinavian ballads.
(Location : Blue shelves 3, 5 up)
Retold by Dora Ford Madeley
With Twleve Illustrations by Stephen Reid
Published by George G. Harrap, London, 1910. Hardback, 8vo, decorative cloth binding with colour plate pasted to the upper board. pp vii, 166, [ii]. With 12 wonderful colour plates by Stephen Reid.
CONDITION
A good copy. The cloth binding is good with light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine but overall is in good condition. Endpapers a little brown with age. Inner joints are sound with no cracking. All contents present including all 12 colour plates. Pages clean throughout. Overall a very good copy.
Sigurd, or Siegfried is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon—known in some Old Norse sources as Fáfnir—and who was later murdered. It is possible he was inspired by one or more figures from the Frankish Merovingian dynasty, with Sigebert I being the most popular contender. Older scholarship sometimes connected him with Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. He may also have a purely mythological origin. Sigurd's story is first attested on a series of carvings, including runestones from Sweden and stone crosses from the British Isles, dating from the 11th century.
In both the Norse and continental Germanic tradition, Sigurd is portrayed as dying as the result of a quarrel between his wife (Gudrun/Kriemhild) and another woman, Brunhild, whom he has tricked into marrying the Burgundian king Gunnar/Gunther. His slaying of a dragon and possession of the hoard of the Nibelungen is also common to both traditions. In other respects, however, the two traditions appear to diverge. The most important works to feature Sigurd are the Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda. He also appears in numerous other works from both Germany and Scandinavia, including a series of medieval and early modern Scandinavian ballads.
(Location : Blue shelves 3, 5 up)
