Editing Völsunga saga (section)

== Context and overview ==
The saga is largely based on the [[epic poetry]] of the historic ''[[Elder Edda]]''. The earliest known pictorial representation of this tradition is the [[Ramsund carving]] in [[Sweden]], which was created {{Circa|1000 CE}}.

The origins of the material are considerably older, however, and it in part echoes real events in Central Europe during the [[Migration Period]], chiefly the destruction of the [[Kingdom of the Burgundians]] by the [[Huns]] in the fifth century. Some of the poems contained in the ''[[Elder Edda]]'' relate episodes from the Völsung legend. On the other hand, the only surviving medieval manuscript of the saga, Ny kgl. Saml. 1824 b 4to, which is held by the [[Royal Library, Denmark|Royal Library of Denmark]], dates to about 1400. In this manuscript, the saga leads straight in to ''[[Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok|Ragnars saga loðbrókar]]''.

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