Guðrúnarkviða
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Guðrúnarkviða I, II and III are three different heroic poems in the Poetic Edda with the same protagonist, Gudrun.
In the first lay, Gudrun finds her dead husband Sigurd. She cries and laments her husband with beautiful imagery.
In the second lay, she recapitulates her life in a monologue.
In the third lay, one of Attila's (Atli) bondmaids accuses her of infidelity with king Theodoric (Þjóðrekr) of the Goths. Gudrun proves her innocence by picking up gems from the bottom of a boiling cauldron with her bare white hands.
These poems show that the hardboiled heroic poetry of the Edda also had space for the hardships and feelings of women.
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- The Poetic Edda in Old Norse from «Kulturformidlingen norrøne tekster og kvad» Norway.
- The first lay with translation
- The second lay with translation
- The third lay with translation
- Guðrúnarkviða I (Old Norse)
- Guðrúnarkviða I (English)
- Guðrúnarkviða II (Old Norse)
- Guðrúnarkviða II (English)
- Guðrúnarkviða III (Old Norse)
- Guðrúnarkviða III (English)
