SCAN 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Brynhildr, Shapeshifting, Rhine

• School: UBC
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAN 335
• Professor: G E O F F R E Y W I N T H R O P- Y O U N G,

Document Summary

Idea probing something and idea of how they react to history. Woman make man act because woman is more masculine. Who kills sigurd and why does he do it. The oath forbids them to kill sigurd. Thus older can ask younger to kill him. Give sigurd a bowl of snakes to inject poison. The animals need to be inside the human in order to for the human to be animal. Sigurd slashes the murdered into half before before he dies. A fight between two women and both in love with the same man. Shapeshifting brings about deceit, you don"t know who you are dealing with. Brynhild breaks an oath that she will marry whoever run through the fire. Brynhild threatens that she will kill everyone and take revenge if her husband refuses to kill sigurd. Something that happens make its being retold again and again. Repetitive storyline because compiles trying to make a point.