The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs is an anonymous Old Norse prose saga recounting the mythical history of the Volsung clan. It is a foundational text for understanding Germanic heroic legend and inspired later works, including Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Sources for The Saga of the Volsungs

• Read the full text
• https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1152
• https://archive.org/details/vlsungasagasto00eiruoft
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs in Epics

Held in the Epics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Homer — The Iliad (−750)
• Homer — The Odyssey (−725)
• Epic of Gilgamesh (−2100)
• Virgil — The Aeneid (−19)
• Beowulf (anonymous, Old English) (1000)
• Vyasa (attrib.) — The Mahabharata (−400)
• Valmiki (attrib.) — The Ramayana (−500)
• Luo Guanzhong — Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Kuo) (1400)
• Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1010)
• Elias Lönnrot (compiler) — The Kalevala (1849)
• Apollonius of Rhodes — The Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece) (−250)
• Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes) (92)
• Snorri Sturluson — The Prose Edda (1220)
• The Poetic Edda (anonymous, Old Norse) (1270)
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) (1100)
• The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (1450)
• The Book of Dede Korkut (1300)