The Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands

This volume presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sjúrður, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying hero of the Germanic Middle Ages, in English translation accompanied by the Faroese original. The ballads show that far from being culturally isolated, the Faroe Islands were an in...

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Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Arc Humanities Press 2025
Subjects:	Oral tradition; folk poetry; Germanic storytelling;
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100375
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