The Völsunga Saga on Volsungs
The Story Of The Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) > With Excerpts From The Poetic Edda > Introduction
attestation: The Volsung-Niblung story is the most complete and dramatic epic of the Northern peoples
"there is none that so epitomises human experience; has within the same space so much of nature and of life; so fully the temper and genius of the Northern folk, as that of the Volsungs and Niblungs"
attestation: The Volsung story belonged to the common ancestral folk of all Teutonic and Scando-Gothic peoples
"In the beginning there is no doubt that the story belonged to the common ancestral folk of all the Teutonic of Scando-Gothic peoples in the earliest days of their wanderings."
The Story Of The Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) > CHAPTER XXXIX. The End of Atli and his Kin and Folk.
- attestation: The narrator declares the Volsungs and Giukings have been the greatest-hearted and mightiest of all men
"the Volsungs and the Giukings, as folk tell in tale, have been the greatest-hearted and the mightiest of all men"