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The Icelandic prose saga that gathers the legends of the Volsung clan, including the dragon-slayer Sigurd, the cursed gold of the Nibelungs, and the fierce love and vengeance of Brynhild. Drawn from ancient Germanic heroic tradition, it later inspired Wagner's Ring cycle and Tolkien, and remains one of the great epics of the medieval North.
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