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"