The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

图书信息

作者	J. R. R. Tolkien
出版社	HarperCollins
ISBN	9780007323074
出版时间	2009-05-05
字数	30.0万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. “Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the V?lsungs and The New Lay of Gudrún. “In the Lay of the V?lsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress, mother of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness. “In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. In the Lay of Gudrún her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge. “Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work the V?lsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda.” — Christopher Tolkien

目录

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO THE ‘ELDER EDDA’

VÖLSUNGAKVIÐA EN NÝJA (‘The New Lay of the Völsungs’)

UPPHAF

I: ANDVARA-GULL

II: SIGNÝ

III: DAUÐI SINFJÖTLA

IV: FŒDDR SIGURÐR

V: REGIN

VI: BRYNHILDR

VII: GUÐRÚN

VIII: SVIKIN BRYNHILDR

IX: DEILD

COMMENTARY on VÖLSUNGAKVIÐA EN NÝJA

GUÐRÚNARKVIÐA EN NÝJA eða DRÁP NIFLUNGA

GUÐRÚNARKVIÐA EN NÝJA (‘The New Lay of Gudrún’)

COMMENTARY on GUÐRÚNARKVIÐA EN NÝJA

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A A short account of the ORIGINS OF THE LEGEND

APPENDIX B THE PROPHECY OF THE SIBYL

APPENDIX C FRAGMENTS OF A HEROIC POEM OF ATTILA IN OLD ENGLISH

WORKS BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN

COPYRIGHT PAGE

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER