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Sigrdrifumol: The Shield-Tower and the Long Sleep

Sigurth wakes Brynhild on Hindarfjoll; she tells the source of her sleep and gives him mead and teaching, while the fragment leaves only a few lines of their choice for one another.

Chapters

01
Firelight on Hindarfjoll
Firelight on Hindarfjoll
Sigurd Brynhild
02
Cutting the Mail
Cutting the Mail
Sigurd Brynhild Gram
03
The Sleep-Thorn
The Sleep-Thorn
Odin Brynhild
04
Mead after Waking
Mead after Waking
Sigurd Brynhild
05
Runes after the Dialogue
Runes after the Dialogue
Sigurd Brynhild
06
A Choice of Speech or Silence
A Choice of Speech or Silence
Sigurd Brynhild
07
Eleven Surviving Counsels
Eleven Surviving Counsels
Sigurd Brynhild
08
After the Missing Leaf
After the Missing Leaf
Sigurd Brynhild

Ancient sources

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Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Sigrdrifumol, Introductory note, opening prose, and stanzas 1–37: Hindarfjoll, the sleep-thorn, mead, runes, choice, and surviving counsels.

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Chapters

Firelight on Hindarfjoll

Cutting the Mail

The Sleep-Thorn

Mead after Waking

Runes after the Dialogue

A Choice of Speech or Silence

Eleven Surviving Counsels

After the Missing Leaf

Ancient sources