The Saga of the Volsungs

With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

By: Jackson Crawford - translator

Narrated by: Jackson Crawford

From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature.

Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

©2017 Jackson Crawford (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

outstanding

loved it, tells the stories well while also giving the reader enough details and outside information to fully understand the sagas and their contents

Beautiful

Was very satisfying to get a window into what world lies hidden in the runes. Great AMERICAN author 🦅🦅🦅

Great Story and Narration

Loved the narration and the references to the Poetic Edda! The foreword was also very informative.

Outstanding translation and performance

Crawford's translation makes the saga come alive, but fascinating characters and bold adventures. He has the perfect voice for the performance. It's a pleasure to listen to.

Excellent SAGA (not a novel)

The stories are engaging, enjoyable, and enlightening. The people and monsters are excellent and the differences between Norse sagas and the Greco-Roman sagas is fascinating. While Oedipus runs from his fate, these characters just except prophesy as unavoidable and keep on going. Yet, they look for tricky ways around the oaths they take as inviolable. Boys of good families are taught fighting and strategy by becoming highway robbers for a few year (as long as you don't rob from your own family members). This is a saga, not a novel, so there is some repetition and many, many, similar sounding names for different characters.

This is very difficult material to narrate, and the author's narration was likely the best choice considering everything. This yielded a good, but far from great, result.