The Legend of Sigurd and GudrúnMany years ago, J. R. R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn. In the Lay of the Vlsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Ffnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the