Asatru Folk Assembly - January 29, 2024


Dráp Niflunga, a reading

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Steve McNallen
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Drap Niflunga Gunnar Hogni Brynhild Drop Niflunga Nibberlingelid Hamthismar Svanhild Varanaut Sigurth Reagan Sigurd Yonak Otley Vingi Atli
Helreið Brynhildar, a reading Guðrúnarkviða II Hin Forna, a reading

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5 minutes

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100.3

Word count

580

Sentence count

25

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Drap Niflunga is a short prose passage in the second collection of poems, the Grapispa, written in the late twelfth century. It summarizes the events surrounding the deaths of Sigurd and Brynhild, and the murder of the Girkings by Otli, Sigurd's second husband.

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00:00:00.000 Drop Niflunga, the slang of the Niflunges.
00:00:25.460 It has been already pointed out, introductory note to the Reagan's Mall, that the compiler
00:00:32.640 of the edit collection had clearly undertaken to formulate a coherent narrative of the entire
00:00:39.040 cigarette cycle, piercing together the various poems by means of prose-narrative links.
00:00:48.000 To some extent, these links were based on traditions existing outside of the lays themselves,
00:00:55.460 But in the main, the material was gathered from the contents of the poems.
00:01:01.360 The short prose passage, entitled Drap Niflunga, which in the Codex Laregius immediately follows the Hellraith Brindhildar, is just such a narrative link, and scarcely deserves a special heading.
00:01:16.580 But as nearly all editions separated from the preceding and following poems, I have followed their example.
00:01:25.460 With Sigurd and Brynhild both dead, the story turns to the slaying of the sons of Gyöki
00:01:33.520 by Otli, Guthrun's second husband, and to a few subsequent incidents, mostly late incorporations
00:01:42.400 from other narrative cycles, including the tragic death of Svanhild, daughter of Sigurd
00:01:47.920 and Guthrun, and wife of Jormenrek, Ermenrek, and the exploits of Hamthr, son of Guthrun
00:01:57.320 and her third husband, Yonak.
00:02:00.420 These stories are told or outlined in the two Atli lays, the second and third Guthrun
00:02:06.680 lays, the Odrunargaratr, the Guthrunkrvat, and the Hamthismar. 0.73
00:02:17.360 Had the compiler seen fit to put the atlilays immediately after the hellrape's brain herdar,
00:02:23.520 he would have needed only a very brief transitional note to make the course of the story clear.
00:02:29.720 But as the second Guthrun lay, the next poem in the collection, is a lament following the
00:02:34.880 death of Guthrun's brothers, some sort of narrative bridge was manifestly needed.
00:02:42.840 Drapnefrunga is based entirely on the poems which follow it in the collection, with no use of extraneous material.
00:02:51.240 The part of the story which it summarizes belongs to the semi-historical Burgundian tradition, see introductory note to Grapispa,
00:03:01.560 in many respects parallel to the familiar narrative of the Nibberlingelid,
00:03:07.940 and except in minor details, showing few essentially northern additions.
00:03:14.340 Sigurth is scarcely mentioned, and the outstanding episode is the slaying of Gunnar and Hogni
00:03:21.060 following their journey to Atli's home.
00:03:26.120 Drap Niflunga
00:03:27.880 Gunnar and Hogni then took all the gold that Fafnir had had.
00:03:34.640 There was strife between the Girkings and Otli, for he held the Girkings guilty of Brynhild's death.
00:03:43.100 It was agreed that they should give him Guthrun as wife,
00:03:47.120 and they gave her a draught of forgetfulness to drink before she would consent to be wedded to Otli.
00:03:53.340 The sons of Otley were Earp and Eitel, and Svanhild was the daughter of Sigrid and Guthrun.
00:04:02.280 King Otley invited Gunnar and Hogni to come to him, and sent as messenger Vingi or Cnathroth.
00:04:12.600 Guthrun was aware of treachery, and sent with him a message in the runes that they should not come,
00:04:18.860 and as a token she sent to Hogni the ring on Varanaut,
00:04:24.420 and tied a wolf's hair to it.
00:04:27.600 Gunnar had sought Odrun, Atli's sister, for his wife,
00:04:31.680 but had had her not.
00:04:33.800 Then he married Glamvor,
00:04:36.260 and Hogni's wife was Kostbera.
00:04:39.420 Their sons were Sorar and Snyvar and Gyukki. 0.99
00:04:44.560 And when the Gyukkings came to Atli, 0.99
00:04:46.980 Then Guthrin besought her sons to plead for the lives of both the Girkings, but they would 0.90
00:04:53.420 not do it.
00:04:55.260 Hogni's heart was cut out, and Gunnar was cast into the serpent's den.
00:05:01.400 He smote on the harp and put the serpents to sleep, but an otter stung him in the liver.
00:05:16.980 Thank you.