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CONTENTS.



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Introduction ix
Translators’ Preface xxxix
Names, &c. xlix
A Prologue in Verse li
STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.
CHAP  
I. Of Sigi, the Son of Odin 1
II. Of the Birth of Volsung, the Son of Rerir, who was the Son of Sigi 3
III. Of the Sword that Sigmund, Volsung’s Son, drew from the Branstock 6
IV. How King Siggeir wedded Signy, and bade King Volsung and his Son to Gothland 9
V. Of the Slaying of King Volsung 11
VI. Of how Signy sent the Children of her and Siggeir to Sigmund 15
VII. Of the Birth of Sinfjotli, the Son of Sigmund 17
VIII. The Death of King Siggeir and of Signy 20
IX. How Helgi, the Son of Sigmund, won King Hodbrod and his Realm, and Wedded Sigrun 27