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.
00:00:00.000Drop Niflunga, the slang of the Niflunges.
00:00:25.460It has been already pointed out, introductory note to the Reagan's Mall, that the compiler
00:00:32.640of the edit collection had clearly undertaken to formulate a coherent narrative of the entire
00:00:39.040cigarette cycle, piercing together the various poems by means of prose-narrative links.
00:00:48.000To some extent, these links were based on traditions existing outside of the lays themselves,
00:00:55.460But in the main, the material was gathered from the contents of the poems.
00:01:01.360The 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.
00:01:16.580But as nearly all editions separated from the preceding and following poems, I have followed their example.
00:01:25.460With Sigurd and Brynhild both dead, the story turns to the slaying of the sons of Gyöki
00:01:33.520by Otli, Guthrun's second husband, and to a few subsequent incidents, mostly late incorporations
00:01:42.400from other narrative cycles, including the tragic death of Svanhild, daughter of Sigurd
00:01:47.920and Guthrun, and wife of Jormenrek, Ermenrek, and the exploits of Hamthr, son of Guthrun