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6 Saga-Book of the <strong>Viking</strong> <strong>Society</strong> Atlakvioa: (I) the long period after Attila's death in which stories about him and the killing ot the Burgundian king develop, with the accretion of variant motifs and motivations, through the telling of the tale by numerous different poets and reciters, who adjust and invent as their taste or memory direct; (2) the shaping of the story by a Norse poet (or poets) into a poem with the design I have outlined above; and (3) the imperfect preservation of this poem through the faulty memory of one or more reciters. Since the design of the poem, as I have outlined it, does not depend upon the interpretation of any obscure or corrupt passages, I am not concerned here with stage 3. I should like to consider primarily stage 2. It is assumed by some editors that lines have been lost before the capture of Gunnarr (stanza 18), describing a fuller fight by both Gunnarr and Hogni." In that case, the motivation I suggested above, that Gunnarr deliberately does not resist capture, is the result of an accident of preservation and is not part of the poet's design. Certainly in the Nibelungenlied, Piorekssaga and Atlamdl, Gunnarr fights and is overborne either by Dietrich, or by force of numbers. But the authors of these works are greatly preoccupied with battles; the poet of Atlakoioa is not. His Burgundian princes come, not merely without escort, like Hamoir and Sorli, but even, it would seem, without armour. 7 Gunnarr's mild words to Guorun. "It has grown too late to summon the Niflungar", show that he places no hope in fighting as a means of defeating the Huns. This is not a poem of battles, but of individual audacity against the massive and featureless tyranny of the Huns. The confused fighting and ill-motivated cruelties of the other versions of the story are distilled to 6 S. Bugge, Norrcen Fornkv{coi (1867),431; B. Sijmons and H. Gering, Die Lieder der Edda, Kornmentar II (1931), 351; Helgason, op, cit. ISS. For a different view see R. C. Boer, ed. cit. 297 f. 7 It may indeed have been Hamoismdl that suggested to the poet of Atlakoioa the unaccompanied heroic journey of the Burgundians. The link between the two poems seems close. In H amoisma! also a woman speaks to the two brothers in the hall before hostilities begin. Might it even have been the influence of Hamoismdl that made Gnnnarr and Hogni brothers in Norse tradition?
The Lay of Attila 7 clarity in the planned action of Atlakoioa. Only Hogni, with a warrior's simplicity, defends himself instinctively with his sword. Gunnarr and Gu
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