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 [
> > http://www.nordals.hi.is/shippey.html ].

Haukur wrote:

> Ooh! Me wants it.

I wonder if we're about to get our wish!!

http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/the-legend-of-sigurd-and-gudrun/#more-2239