Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The majority of the heroic poems of the Codex Regius (in manuscript c. 1270) focus on the hero Sigurðr Fáfnisbani, the Gjúkung family into whom he marries, particularly his wife Guðrún Gjúkadóttir, and the valkyrie Brynhildr, to whom he is ambiguously bound through mutual oaths. These poems
Source: Scandinavian Studies
Author: Caroline R. Batten
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4391073869