Asatru Folk Assembly - January 17, 2024


Frá dauða Sinfjötla, a reading


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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.
00:09:08.440 You