Asatru Folk Assembly - January 17, 2024


Frá dauða Sinfjötla, a reading

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Steve McNallen
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Sigmund Wolfsungsson Helgi Hundingsbane Sigurd Thalver Volsing Borekild Signy Sigmund Wollsungsund Volsung Sigmund Sinchotli Schörle Sigur Signi Signe Helge Kvita Hjörwärtssoner Freudauta Sinschottla Gottman Grandmarsson King Hjallperk King Sigmund Sinshotli Bordekild and 4 more
The Hat (Academy Storytime) Grípisspá — Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana I, a reading

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9 minutes

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133.86

Word count

1,228

Sentence count

60

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Summary

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Sigurd, the son of Sigmund Wolfsungsund, is one of the most famous sons in the history of the sagas. He is a hero, a villain, and a hero's son. But who is Sigurd's father? And how did he become a hero?

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00:00:00.000 Freudauta Sinschottla of Sinschottli's death.
00:00:28.280 It has been pointed out that the Helgi tradition, coming originally from Denmark, was early
00:00:33.220 associated with that of the Wolfsungs, which was of German, or rather of Frankish, origin.
00:00:41.380 Cease introductory note to Helge Kvita Hjörwärtssoner.
00:00:46.980 The connecting links between these two sets of stories were few in number, the main point
00:00:51.920 being the identification of Helgi as the son of Sigmund Wolfsungsson.
00:00:57.420 The first son of Sigmund, however, appears in the Helgi poems, though not in any of the
00:01:02.260 poems dealing with the Volsing cycle proper.
00:01:05.620 This is Sint-Fjotli, whose sole function in the extent Helgi lays is to have a worthy
00:01:12.100 dispute with Gottman Grandmarsson.
00:01:16.040 Sint-Fjotli's history is told in detail in the early chapters of the Volsing saga.
00:01:21.880 The twin sisters of Sigmund Wollsungsund, Signy, had married Sigir, who hated his brother-in-law
00:01:28.700 by reason of his desire to possess a sword which had belonged to Odin and had been won
00:01:33.740 by Sigmund.
00:01:35.320 Having treacherously invited Wollsungsund and his ten sons to visit him, Sigir slew Wollsungsund
00:01:41.380 and captured his sons, who were set in the stocks.
00:01:45.080 Each night a wolf, some men say that she was Sigur's mother, came out of the woods and ate up one of the brothers.
00:01:56.100 Till on the tenth night, Sigmund alone was left.
00:01:59.280 Then, however, Signi aided him to escape, and incidentally, to kill the wolf.
00:02:06.900 He got vengeance on Sigur and Signi, who hated her husband, which determined to help him.
00:02:12.800 Convinced that Sigmund must have a helper of his own race, Sigmund changed forms with
00:02:19.300 the witch and in disguise sought out Sigmund, who, not knowing who she was, spent three
00:02:25.840 nights with her.
00:02:28.120 Thereafter she gave birth to a boy, who she named Sinchotli, the Yellow Spotted, whom she
00:02:34.920 sent to Sigmund.
00:02:35.920 For a time they lived in the woods, occasionally turning in the woods, when perhaps Sinchotli's
00:02:42.560 When Sinxotli was full grown, he and his father came to Sigurd's house, but were seen and
00:02:49.640 betrayed by the two sons of Signy and Sigurd, whereupon Sinxotli slew them. Sigurd promptly
00:02:56.880 had Sigmund and Sinxotli buried alive, but Signy managed to smuggle Sigmund's famous
00:03:03.080 sword into the grave, and with this the father and son dug themselves out. The next night
00:03:09.560 they buttoned Signe at his house, their enemy dying in the flames, and Signe, who had at
00:03:15.420 last refused to leave her husband, from a sense of somewhat belated loyalty, perishing
00:03:21.180 with him. Was this story, which the Volsing Saga relates in considerable detail, the basis
00:03:28.560 of an old poem which has been lost? Almost certainly it was, although, as I have pointed
00:03:34.220 out, many if not most of the old stories appear to have been handed down rather in prose
00:03:39.240 than in verse, for the Volsunga Saga quotes two lines of verse regarding the escape from
00:03:44.620 the grave.
00:03:46.280 At any rate, Sinfjotli early became a part of the Volsung tradition, which in turn formed
00:03:52.420 the basis for no less than 15 poems generally included in the Etika collection.
00:03:57.400 Of this tradition, we may recognize three distinct paths, the Volsung Sigmund Sinfjotli
00:04:03.840 story, the Helgi story, and the Sigurd story.
00:04:08.780 the last of these three being by far the most extensive
00:04:12.100 and suggesting an almost limitless amount of further subdivision.
00:04:17.380 With the Volus and Sigmunds and Schörle story,
00:04:20.540 the Sigurds legend is connected only by the fact that Sigurds appears as Sigmund's son
00:04:25.380 by his late wife, Schörle,
00:04:27.880 where the Helgi legend is not connected directly at all.
00:04:32.720 Aside from the fact that Helgi appears as Sigmund's son by his first wife, Borukild,
00:04:37.000 The only link between the Volsing story proper and that of the Helgi is the appearance of
00:04:42.160 Sintioli in two of the Helgi poems.
00:04:46.160 Originally, it is altogether probable that the three stories, or sets of stories, were
00:04:51.520 entirely distinct, and that Sigurd, the familiar Sigrid, had little or nothing to do with
00:04:58.120 the Volsings and northern mythological heroic tradition than he had to do with Helgi.
00:05:05.440 The annotator, or compiler, of the collection of poems preserved in the Codex Regius, having
00:05:10.380 finished with the Herrigiles, had before him the task of setting down the fifteen complete
00:05:16.340 or fragmentary poems dealing with the Sigurd story.
00:05:20.240 But before doing this, however, he felt it incumbent on him to dispose of both Sigmund
00:05:25.980 and Scintioli, the sole links of the two other sets of stories.
00:05:31.160 He apparently knew of no poem or poems concerning the deaths of these two.
00:05:35.960 Perhaps there were none, though this is unlikely.
00:05:40.080 Certainly the story of how Sinfiotli and Sigmund died was current in oral Poe's condition,
00:05:45.340 and the story the compiler set forth in the prose passage entitled Of Sinfiotli's Death,
00:05:50.740 which in Regius immediately follows the second lay of Helgi Hunding's bane.
00:05:56.520 The relation of this passage to the prose of the Regensmur is discussed in an introductory
00:06:01.900 note to that poem.
00:06:05.280 Sigmund, the son of Volsing, was a king in the land of Thranx.
00:06:09.880 Sinshotli was his oldest son, the second was Helgi, and the third Hamund.
00:06:16.640 Bordekild, Sigmund's wife, had a brother whose name was unknown.
00:06:20.800 St. Shortley, her stepson, and Borekild's brother, both wooed the same woman.
00:06:26.540 Wherefore, St. Shortley slew him.
00:06:29.260 And when he came home, Borekild bade him depart.
00:06:32.080 But Sigmund offered her a ton of money.
00:06:35.100 And this she had to accept.
00:06:38.020 At the funeral feast, Borekild brought an ale.
00:06:40.840 She took poison, a great hornful, and brought it to St. Shortley.
00:06:45.940 But when he looked into the horn, he saw that it was poison and said to Sigmund,
00:06:50.000 muddy is the drink father Sigmund took the horn and drank there from it is said
00:06:57.680 that Sigmund was so hardy the poison might not harm him either outside or in
00:07:02.840 and all his sons could withstand poison only without on their skin Borgill bore 0.56
00:07:09.860 another horn to Sinfioli and bade him drink and all happened as before and yet
00:07:15.920 a third time she brought him a horn, and spoke therewith scornful words of him, if he should
00:07:22.300 not drink from it. He spoke as before with Sigmund, though later said, Let it trinkle
00:07:29.240 through your beard, son. Sigmund shortly drank, and straightway was dead. Sigmund bore him
00:07:37.260 a long way in his arms, and came to a narrow and long fjord, and there was a little boat,
00:07:42.920 and a man in it. He offered to take Sigmund across the fjord, but when Sigmund had borne the corpse
00:07:49.660 out into the boat, then the craft was full. The man told Sigmund to go round the inner end of the
00:07:55.820 fjord, then the man pushed the boat off and disappeared. King Sigmund dwelt long in Denmark
00:08:03.120 in Borkild's kingdom after he had married her. Thereafter Sigmund went south into the land of
00:08:09.760 France, to the kingdom which he had there. There he married Hjörðs, the daughter of
00:08:16.000 King Alemi. Their son was Sigrð. King Sigmund fell in battle, and the sons of Hunding, and
00:08:23.940 Hjörðs then remarried Alf, the son of King Hjallperk. There Sigrð grew up in his boyhood.
00:08:32.800 Sigmund and all his sons were far above all other men, in might and stature and courage
00:08:38.440 and every kind of ability. Sigurd Thalver was the foremost of all, and all men call him
00:08:45.160 in the old tales the nobles to mankind and the mightiest leader.
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