The weighty words of William Morris regarding the Volsunga Saga may also be fitly quoted as an introduction to the whole of this collection of “Myths of the Norsemen”: “This is the great story of the North, which should be to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks—to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been—a story too—then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.”
[1] “Northern Mythology,” Kauffmann.
[2] Halliday Sparling.
[3] Carlyle, “Heroes and Hero Worship.”
[4] “Northern Mythology,” Kauffmann.