Sigurd : Icelandic form of Siegfried, the Germanic hero who killed Fafnir.
... Page 595 I would have seen his hand in this defeat, Whose stroke is like the lightning's, silent, straight, Not to be parried. HARDICNUT Sigurd smote, perhaps, But Eric's brain was master of his stroke. SWEGN The traitor Sigurd! For young Eric's part In Olaf's death, he did a warrior's act Avenging Yarislaf and Hacon slain, And Fate, not Eric slew. But he who, trusted, lured... Thy comrade Hardicnut, for he intended A kind betrayal. SWEGN This is nothing, King. His act my heart had come to understand And it has pardoned. ERIC Forgive then Swegn, dearest, Sigurd, thy foe, as I have pardoned first My father's slaughterer. This thing is hard. SWEGN He's pardoned, not forgiven. Let him not come Too often in my sight. ERIC The gods have won. Let ...
... the doors of his city" (VI.18.5). At the beginning of all human traditions there is this ancient memory. It is Indra and the serpent Vritra, it is Apollo and the Python, it is Thor and the Giants, Sigurd and Fafner, it is the mutually opposing gods of the Celtic mythology; but only in the Veda do we find the key to this imagery which conceals the hope or the wisdom of a prehistoric humanity. The ...
... depths of the cave; the battle against the subconscious forces (ogres, dwarves, or serpents); the legend of Page 221 Apollo and the Python, Indra and the Serpent Vritta, Thor and the giants, Sigurd and Fafner; the solar myth of the Mayas, the Descent of Orpheus, the Transmutation. It is the serpent biting it own tail. And above all, it is the secret of the Vedic rishis, who were probably the ...
... is "a great light" leading unto the beatific vision. No doubt he fails to appreciate the old Norse religion in its full relation to life, unlike Morris who gave a puissant reflection of it in his Sigurd the Volsung . That was to be expected, so steeped is he in the Christian ideology; and I for one find no reason to complain against this bias, since it is blown towards us in gusts of genuine poetic ...
... Tagore has not written an epic. SRI AUROBINDO: Tagore? He has not the epic mind. But he has written some very fine narrative poems. A few of William Morris' narratives are also very fine—his Sigurd ihe Volsung and Earthly Paradise, especially the latter. I read them a number of times in my early days. There is a tendency to belittle him, because he wrote about the Middle Ages and Romanticism ...
... a great transmutative truth and its overshadowing, of the Quest, the battle of the heroes of Light against the evil forces, Indra and the snake Vritra , Apollo and the Python, Thor and the Giants, Sigurd and Fafner, but nowhere do we find so purely the totality of the Secret, and we are filled with wonder at these Vedic conquerors : They may not have yoked the lightning to their chariots, nor weighed ...
... companionship with the gods of Light. At the beginning of all human traditions there is this ancient memory. It is Indra and the serpent Vritra, it is Apollo and the Python, it is Thor and the Giants, Sigurd and Fafner, it is the mutually opposing gods of the Celtic mythology; but only in the Veda do we find the key to this imagery which conceals the hope or the Page 62 wisdom ...
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