Asatru Folk Assembly - January 29, 2024


Dráp Niflunga, a reading


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5 minutes

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100.29974

Word count

580

Sentence count

25

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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.