The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
By: edited by Christopher Tolkien
Contributors: Tolkien, Christopher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780547273426
Copyright date: 1981, 1993, 1996, 2009
First sentence: Of old was an age when was emptiness, there was sand nor sea nor surging waves; unwrought was Earth, unroofed was Heaven - an abyss yawning, and no blade of grass.
Description: Tolkien's version of the great legend of Northern antiquity. In the first part, we follow the adventures of Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir, and his betrothal to the Valkyrie Brynhild. In the second, the tragedy mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, 2009."