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1	Genre's Genders: The Transformation of Gudrun from The Poetic Edda to Volsungasaga Aberl, Jessica January 2017 (has links) No description available. Literature Medieval Literature Icelandic and Scandinavian Literature The Saga of the Volsungs Volsungasaga The Poetic Edda Eddic poetry Gudrun saga genre gender
2	W. Morrisovo dílo The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs ve srovnání s J. R. R. Tolkienovým The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún / A Comparison of William Morris' The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún Hlavatá, Barbora January 2018 (has links) This thesis focuses on the formal and stylistic analysis and comparison of two works written by English authors, namely William Morris' poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) and J. R. R. Tolkien's poetic work The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (published posthumously in 2009) with respect to how each of these works deals with the original Old Norse motives which they are based on. Both Sigurd the Volsung and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún can be described as poetic adaptations of the Old Norse tale of Sigurd Fafnisbani, which is recounted in the Saga of the Volsungs and in a cycle of poems found in the Poetic Edda. Both Morris and Tolkien borrowed this story to use it in their own works, yet each of them treats it in a different manner. Therefore, not only do both of the works differ from the original Old Norse texts on multiple levels, but they also differ one from another. The differences between them can be traced in the metrical properties of the individual poems, for instance, or in the use of specific stylistic elements. From this, it can be inferred that although it was the goal of both authors to evoke the atmosphere of the legendary heroic past where Sigurd's story takes place, each of them attempts to do so in a different way. This is probably caused by...
3	The Death of All Who Possess It: Gold, Hoarding, and the Monstrous in Early Medieval Northern European Literature Farnsworth-Everhart, Lauren 12 May 2021 (has links) No description available. Medieval Literature Icelandic and Scandinavian Literature British and Irish Literature Middle Ages Literature gold hoarding transformation monsters dragons Saga of the Volsungs Beowulf violence medieval Iceland medieval England medieval Germanic literature Grendel Fafnir

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Genre's Genders: The Transformation of Gudrun from The Poetic Edda to Volsungasaga

The Death of All Who Possess It: Gold, Hoarding, and the Monstrous in Early Medieval Northern European Literature