Faroese sigur songs

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The Faroese sigur songs go back to the oldest Faroese ballads of the Middle Ages . They get their name from Sigurd , who also appears in the stories of other peoples and largely corresponds to Siegfried the dragon slayer . The songs, however, differ significantly from other Sigurd / Siegfried songs, such as B. the Icelandic Sigurdlieder of the Edda or the German Nibelungenlied .

The Faroese Sigurdlieder are a separate cycle of 15 songs and song fragments with 1482  stanzas . The main stem of the cycle consists of the three great Sigurd songs :

The oldest songs are probably adaptations from the 14th century (when the dance dance was introduced) based on even older folk ballads brought by the Norwegian settlers who settled the Faroe Islands in the early 9th century.

The Faroese Sigurdlieder were written down in 1851 by VU Hammershaimb in the New Faroese written language .

literature

  • Helmut de Boor : The Faroese songs of the Nibelungen cycle. Dissertation (University of Leipzig 1917), Heidelberg 1918.
  • Klaus Fuss: The Faroese songs of the Nibelung saga: text, readings and translation. (Göppingen work on German studies, No. 427-429). Kümmerle-Verlag, Göppingen 1985–1987.
  • VU Hammershaimb: Færøske Kvæder. Edition Copenhagen 1852 in 2nd edition. Tórshavn 1969 (Danish).
  • William B. Lockwood: The Faroese Sigurdlieder after the 'Sandoyarbók' with grammar and glossary. Føroya Fródskaparfelag, Tórshavn 1983.

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