Me wants this book too - Precious - We wants it for our readings we do
We writes to Amazon - Amazon likes us - she don't charge us postage - not ever
Kveðja and thanks
Patricia 
 
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From: llama_nom
Date: 24/02/2009 15:38:13
Subject: [norse_course] Tolkien's "Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun"
 
Long ago, Llama Nom quoted these tantalising words of Tom Shippey:
 
> > "All his life, Tolkien enjoyed
> > filling gaps in what survives. There is, for instance, a well-known
> > gap in the Codex Regius manuscript of the Poetic Edda, where some
> > eight pages of the Sigurðr cycle are missing. But Tolkien wrote two
> > poems to fill this gap, in Old Norse, in the appropriate meter,
> > which are called, we believe, Sigurðarkviða hin nýja and
> > Guðrúnarkviða hin nýja. Unfortunately these remain unprinted."
> > Tolkien and Iceland, the Philology of Envy [
 
 
Haukur wrote:
 
> Ooh! Me wants it.
 
 
I wonder if we're about to get our wish!!
 
 
 
 
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