The Story of the Volsungs (volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda

Darkness gathers around the Volsungs. Cursed by a ring stolen from a dwarf's dying hands, this legendary family of warriors marches toward doom with swords drawn and hearts Ablaze with vengeance. At the center stands Sigurd, the dragon-slayer who tastes the blood of a supernatural creature and gains forbidden knowledge from a Valkyrie maid. He wins a treasure beyond imagining: gold hoarded by a worm, a ring that twists all who hold it toward ruin. But Sigurd's fate is already written in runes, and the saga spares no one in its bloody reckoning. From Odin himself walking the earth in disguise to brothers slaying brothers over inheritance, from Brynhild's terrible wrath to the final orgy of flame and betrayal, this is a tale where every victory costs something and no curse goes unfulfilled. The Volsungs have inspired Wagner's Ring cycle, Tolkien's Swords, and every dragon-slayer myth since. This is where fantasy was born.