Contents
Wagner’s Ring and its Icelandic Sources
Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals 1995
Preface
Úlfar bragason
Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Reykjavík Arts Festival
Selma Guðmundsdóttir
The Ring and its Time:
The Social and Political Background to the Tetralogy
Barry Millington
The Nordic Sublime:
The Romantic Rediscovery of Icelandic Myth and Poetry
Lars Lönnroth
Early Icelandic Myth and Legend
as Background for the Ring
Vésteinn Ólason
Engi má við sköpum vinna
Wagner’s Use of his Icelandic Sources
Stewart Spencer
Richard Wagner as a Poet
Þorsteinn Gylfason
Contributors