Saga of the Volsungs

The Icelandic Völsunga saga, the great heroic legend of Sigurd the dragon-slayer and the cursed treasure of the Rhine.

Core Characteristics

Written in the 13th century, retelling story material centuries older, much of it also sung in the Poetic Edda.
Runs from Odin's gift to the Volsung line through Sigurd's slaying of Fafnir to the avenging of his daughter Aslaug's line.
Its plot fed the Nibelungenlied, Wagner's Ring, and the whole Germanic heroic tradition.