Wagner took his tale from the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda.

The Völsungasaga ( often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs ) is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan ( including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians ).

* Read the Volsunga Saga Here, translated by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon.

* Timeless Myths: Volsunga Saga

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In the Icelandic Volsunga Saga ( late 13th century ), Fáfnir was a dwarf gifted with a powerful arm and fearless soul.

Furthermore, the motif of a cursed ring ( namely Andvarinaut and One Ring ) is also shared between the Volsunga Saga and The Lord of the Rings.

For example, the " one ring " comes from folklore, such as the famous legend, The Volsunga Saga.

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, commonly referred to as the Ring cycle, is a set of four operas based loosely on figures and elements of Germanic mythology — particularly from the later Norse mythology — notably the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Volsunga Saga, and the epic poem Nibelungenlied.

Bloodtide ( 1999 ) and Bloodsong ( 2007 ) are post-apocalypse adaptations of Volsunga Saga.

Svanhild is the beautiful daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun in Germanic mythology, whose grisly death at the hands of her jealous royal husband Ermanaric was told in many northern European stories, including the Icelandic Poetic Edda ( Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt ), Prose Edda and the Volsunga Saga ; the Norwegian Ragnarsdrápa ; the Danish Gesta Danorum ; and the German Nibelungenlied and Annals of Quedlinburg.

Examples of shieldmaidens mentioned by name in the Norse sagas include Brynhild in the Volsunga saga, Hervor in Hervarar saga, the Brynhild of the Bósa saga ok Herrauds, the Swedish princess Thornbjörg in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar and Hed, Visna and Veborg in Gesta Danorum.

Scholar Jesse Byock notes that the goddess Skaði is also associated with winter and hunting, and that the episode in Volsunga saga involving the male Skaði, Sigi, and Breði has been theorized as stemming from an otherwise lost myth.

Sigurd's slaying of Fafnir with his sword Gram is described in the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson and the Volsunga saga as well as alluded to in Beowulf and Njáls saga.

Earlier influences come from the story of the sleeping Brynhild in the Volsunga saga and the tribulations of saintly female martyrs in early Christian hagiography conventions.

The Volsunga saga contains many shapeshifting characters.

Sigmund, the father of Sigurd in the Volsunga saga, also resembles Túrin in the incestuous relationship he has with his sister.

Siggeir is prominent in Volsunga saga as the villanous husband of Signý the daughter of Völsung.

In 2004 he directed a feature film / TV two-parter Sword Of Xanten ( aka Ring of the Nibelungs and aka Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King ), based on the Volsunga saga and the Nibelungenlied.

Sigurd is based on the Scandinavian legends of the Edda Volsunga saga ( Nibelungenlied ), the same source which Richard Wagner drew upon for the libretto for his Ring cycle.

Brynhildr of the Volsunga saga, along with her rival in love, Gudrun, provides an example of how a shieldmaiden compares to more conventional aristocratic womanhood in the sagas.

The same king also appears in the Volsunga saga.

In the Volsunga saga, the kings Högne and Granmar also appear, and in this saga, Högne has the sons Bragi and Dag, and a daughter Sigrun who he had promised to Granmar's son Hothbrodd.

Helgi appears in Volsunga saga and in two lays in the Poetic Edda named Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II.

Other heroes briefly mentioned are Perseus, Sigurd, and Roland from Greek myth, Volsunga saga, and the Matter of France / Song of Roland, respectively.

* The Story of Sigurd: Völsunga Saga retold by Andrew Lang.

The battle is retold in skaldic poetry and in sources such as the Danish Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and the Icelandic Saga of Olaf the Holy by Snorri Sturluson.

By the time of the Ynglinga Saga, Snorri had developed his concept of Asgard further, although the differences might be accounted for by his sources.

Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.

Sörla þáttr is a short story in the later and extended version of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason in the manuscript of the Flateyjarbók, which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, in the late 14th century.

One notable exception is the abolition of the death penalty by the Emperor Saga of Japan in 818.

The suggestion that life could even occur within the plasma of a star has been picked up by other science fiction writers, as in David Brin's Uplift Saga or Frederik Pohl's novel The World at the End of Time.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

In Eyrbyggja Saga the draugar infesting the home of the Icelander Kiartan were driven off by holding a " door-doom ".

One of the best-known draugr in the modern world is Glámr, who was defeated by the hero of the Grettis Saga.

In the Eyrbyggja Saga a shepherd is assaulted by a blue-black draugr.

Cry for noble Saichō ( 哭最澄上人 ), which was written by Emperor Saga for Saichō's death.

Emperor Saga was the second son of Emperor Kammu, and younger brother of Emperor Heizei by the same mother.

* June 17, 809 (): In the 4th year of Emperor Heizei's reign, he fell ill and abdicated ; and the succession ( senso ) was received by Kammu's second son Saga, the eldest son having become a Buddhist priest.

Soon after his enthronement, Saga himself took ill. Emperor Saga's untimely health problems provided former-Emperor Heizei with a unique opportunity to foment a rebellion ; however, forces loyal to Emperor Saga, led by taishōgun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, quickly defeated the Heizei rebels which thus limited the adverse consequences which would have followed any broader conflict.

Saga had 49 children by at least 30 different women.

Bushido, Samurai Saga by Tadashi Imai won the Golden Bear at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.

The goddess Saga, who was described as drinking with Odin from golden cups in her hall " Sunken Benches ," may be Frigg by a different name.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

During the " The Dark Phoenix Saga ", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called " Dark Phoenix ", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's solar system, and jeopardizing the entire universe.

Jean manages to survive only by absorbing the remnant of the Phoenix Force housed within Madelyne, giving her both Madelyne's memories and the Phoenix's memories from " The Dark Phoenix Saga ".

In an effort to reduce the use of kryptonite in Superman storylines, all known kryptonite on Earth was transmuted into " k-iron " in a 1971 storyline titled " The Sandman Saga ", though kryptonite could still be synthetically manufactured by a variety of known and unknown means, and additional material left over from the destruction of Krypton would continue to fall from space.

As described in the Orkneyinga Saga, Maeshowe was looted by the famous Vikings Earl Harald Maddadarson and Ragnvald, Earl of Møre in about the 12th century.

Malcolm's son Domnall, whose death is reported in 1085, is not mentioned by the author of the Orkneyinga Saga.

The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.