The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.

Item Number: 144953

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

First edition of Tolkien’s posthumously published pair of epic poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designs taken from carvings illustrating the story of Sigurd on the doors of the twelfth century church of Hylestad, Norway.

"Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of Volsungs and The New Lay of Gudrun... [derived] primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda" (Christopher Tolkien).