- Guðrúnarkviða
Guðrúnarkviða I, II and III are three different
heroic poem s in the "Poetic Edda " with the same protagonist,Gudrun .In "
Guðrúnarkviða I ", Gudrun finds her dead husbandSigurd . She cries and laments her husband with beautiful imagery.In "
Guðrúnarkviða II ", she recapitulates her life in amonologue .In "
Guðrúnarkviða III ", one ofAttila 's ("Atli") bondmaids accuses her of infidelity with king Theodoric ("Þjóðrekr") of theGoths . 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.
References
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Nationalencyklopedin External links
* [http://www.heimskringla.no/original/edda/index.php The Poetic Edda] in Old Norse from «Kulturformidlingen norrøne tekster og kvad» Norway.
* [http://www.normanniireiks.org/guilds_lore/lore/poetic/gudrunarkvida1.htm The first lay with translation]
* [http://www.normanniireiks.org/guilds_lore/lore/poetic/gudrunarkvida2.htm The second lay with translation]
* [http://www.normanniireiks.org/guilds_lore/lore/poetic/gudrunarkvida3.htm The third lay with translation]
* [http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/Icelandic/HeroicLays/GuthrunarkvithaI.htm Guðrúnarkviða I (Old Norse)]
* [http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/LaysoftheHeroes/GuthrunarkvithaI.htm Guðrúnarkviða I (English)]
* [http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/Icelandic/HeroicLays/GuthrunarkvithaII.htm Guðrúnarkviða II (Old Norse)]
* [http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/LaysoftheHeroes/GuthrunarkvithaII.htm Guðrúnarkviða II (English)]
* [http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/Icelandic/HeroicLays/GuthrunarkvithaIII.htm Guðrúnarkviða III (Old Norse)]
* [http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/LaysoftheHeroes/GuthrunarkvithaIII.htm Guðrúnarkviða III (English)]
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