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Updated: May 15, 2025
There are two well-known Continental German versions in the Nibelungen Lied and the late Icelandic Thidreks Saga, but the Edda, on the whole, has preserved an earlier form of the legend. With it is loosely connected The oldest references to this are in Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
Both the masts had gone by the board, and the brig lay a helpless wreck on the tossing waters. The frigate was close to them. For an instant a wild hope rose in Edda's heart. Was she after all the "Imperious?" The hope was soon banished. The flag of France flew out from the stranger's peak. Edda looked round for her father, trembling with fear. He had fallen, and lay on the deck unable to rise.
A part of the hold was quickly arranged for the accommodation of the ladies during the expected action. Two lanterns were hung up in it below the beams, but notwithstanding all that was done, it was a very dreary, dark abode. Edda entreated that she and her mother might remain on deck till they were within range of the enemy's guns.
The older Edda, written in verse, is said to have been collected by Sæmund Sigfusson the learned, one of the early Christian priests of Iceland, who lived about the eleventh century. The other Edda is in prose; it is a collection made about two centuries later.
In the Edda, the corresponding mischief maker steals the hair of a goddess, and is also forced to make restitution. Yet this is only one of many such resemblances in these tales. It will be observed that in both cases the hair of the loser is made to grow again. But while the incident has in the Edda a meaning, as appears from its context, it has none in the Indian tale.
Alfonse looked round and saw that the way was open to him. In another moment Ronald Morton would be at his side. He stooped down, and throwing his arms round Edda, by a violent effort lifted her off the ground and placed her on his saddle. "Retreat, men!" he shouted, "Let alone the other lady."
"My Pakomovna gave up the duke for me, brother." "But she occasionally talks of him, Jasper." "Yes, brother, but Pakomovna was born on a common not far from the sign of the gammon." "Gammon of bacon, I suppose." "Yes, brother; but gammon likewise means " "I know it does, Jasper; it means fun, ridicule, jest; it is an ancient Norse word, and is found in the Edda."
In either case, the wolf's skin or the swan's feathery covering was assumed and laid aside at pleasure, though the Voelundr Quidr, in the Edda, and the stories of 'The Fair Melusina', and other medieval swan-maidens, show that any one who seized that shape while thus laid aside, had power over its wearer.
'Well, I think it will be happier for her if she never sees anything of the kind. 'You little foolish Edda, as if her eyes or ears need see anything but flowers and music and good company. 'I know that, but I had so much rather not. It was a sweet face and caressing voice that implored, and he still was good humoured.
Edda stood motionless, with her head turned away from the flames, and her eye ranging with undefined hope seaward, over the water. "There are boats coming! boats! boats!" was the cry. A shout was raised by the remainder of the crew clustered on the quarter-deck. "Lieutenant Gerardin and our comrades have arrived."
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