The Edda, Volume 2

By the waning moon, Völund returns from the hunt to find one ring missing—and wakes with fetters on his hands and feet. Who has dared to bind the keen-eyed smith?

In the heroic poems of the Edda, old Germanic legends travel between the North, England and the lands along the Rhine, their paths tangled by centuries of retelling. Lucy Winifred Faraday’s 1902 study follows Völund, Sigurd, Helgi and other heroes through a world of swan-maidens, dragons, cursed treasure and foretelling. Captive smiths plot in silence; warriors must reckon with oaths, love and a fate that seems to know their names. Faraday compares these northern poems with their echoes in other traditions, tracing how one legend absorbs another without losing its older mysteries. What survives when a hero’s story changes from land to land?

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