J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation of the Norse saga The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun has just been released. Remember that before he was a fantasy writer, he was a scholar. His other translations of ancient and medieval literature, though, bear the mark of his imaginative genius.
This is the kind of tale that would be one of the inspirations for Middle Earth. It has a magic ring, a dragon, and battles galore. Also valkyries. It appears to be the Norse version of the German legend that Wagner drew on in his opera cycle, “The Ring of the Niebelungenlied.”
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