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Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n. In the Lay of the V?lsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of F?fnir, most celebrated of dragons; of... Read Full Overview

Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn . In the Lay of the Vlsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Ffnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his... Read Full Overview

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr n is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and '30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . It makes available for the first time Tolkien's extensive... Read Full Overview