SOURCE: Taylor, Paul Beekman. “Völundarkviða, Þrymskviða and the Function of Myth.” Neophilologus 78, no. 2 (April 1994): 263-81.
In the following essay, Beekman surveys thematic and narrative resemblances between the Eddic poems Völundarqviða (concerning the smith-hero Volund) and Þrymsqviða (centered on the god Thor), considering the ways in which these poems link the mythological and heroic portions of the Elder Edda.
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