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Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, The Story of, an epic in anapaestic couplets by W. Morris, founded on the Vǫlsunga saga, and published 1876.

It is in four books; the first, ‘Sigmund’, is the story of Volsung's son Sigmund and of the fatal marriage of his sister Signy to the king of the Goths; the second and third, ‘Regin’ and ‘Brynhild’, deal with Sigmund's son Sigurd, his betrothal to Brynhild, his subsequent marriage (under the influence of a magic potion) to Gudrun, the Niblung king's daughter, and the deaths of Sigurd and Brynhild; the last, ‘Gudrun’, tells of Gudrun's own death and the fall of the Niblungs. (See also saga.)

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