Reginsmál

Reginsmál ( Old Norse for "Reginns Rede (n)"), also outdated as Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbanna önnur , is a hero song from the Liederedda in the Codex Regius . The Reginsmál is named after the dwarf Reginn , the foster father of the hero Sigurðr.

The song is introduced by a short prose section and develops into 26 stanzas in Eddic meter of Ljóðaháttr interrupted by short prose insertions. The Reginsmál forms with the Fáfnismál and the Sigrdrífomál a separate group of the Sigurðr poetry within the Liederedda.

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Text output

• Gustav Neckel (ed.): Edda. The songs of the Codex Regius and related monuments . Vol. 1. Text., 5th improved edition by Hans Kuhn. Germanic library. Row 4, Vol. 9. Texts. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-533-03080-6 .
• Klaus von See et al. (Ed.): Commentary on the songs of the Edda . Volume 5. Heroes' songs - Frá lasta Sinfiǫtla, Grípisspá, Reginsmál, Fáfnismál, Sigrdrífumál . Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5180-7

Translations

• The Edda. Poetry of gods, proverbs and heroic songs of the Germanic peoples . Translated into German by Felix Genzmer . Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-424-01380-3 , ISBN 3-7205-2759-X .
• The Hero Songs of the Elder Edda . Arnulf Krause (Ed.) With commentary, Reclam, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-15-018142-3

literature

• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of old Norse literature. The medieval literature of Norway and Iceland (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). 2nd, significantly increased and revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-520-49002-5 .
• Oliver Szokody :  Reginsmál. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 24, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017575-4 , pp. 321-325.