Niflunga Saga Part Two: The Chosen Dead (Poetic Edda)

http://www.freya.theladyofthelabyrinth.com Part One of this saga related the most archaic version of the Dragonslayer and the Sleeping Beauty tales of old, as shown in the Edda, revealing a tale of initiation and Sacred Marriage. In part two, the REAL Edda story of how valkyrias chose their slain continues! The source to this presentation of the old legend is the Heroic poems of the Elder (Poetic) Edda. The particular poems used for this particular part of the story are listed in the end of the video, as is a detailed, sequential listing of the soundtrack. I have used music I thought fit for the story, and the video is for educational purpose only and meant to be seen for free on Youtube. There are two different versions about the murder of Sigurd in the poems. The one I have not used is where Sigurd and his baby boy with Gudrun are both killed while sleeping in their bed, Gudrun next to them. I have chosen the version where he is killed and kills his own murderer while dying, and where there is no son, only a prophecy about sons to come, but in fact only a daughter is born. I left out the prophecy about the sons because there is no further information about them and it would only confuse. Some terms in the story with the Old Norse originals, taken from the Elder Edda poems: Brynhild´s heiti: Goddess of Gold/Golden Goddess: "Gullna Dís" Southern Goddess/Southern Red Goddess: "Südröna Dís" Goddess of the Shield Kind: "Skjoldunga Dís" Brynhild´s revelation, that everybody comes to her after death, is stated in "The Short Poem of Sigurd, stanza 52. Brynhild is a new incarnation of the same valkyriur we met in the previous video: Sigrdrifa, Sigrun, and Svava. Others: Bride of the Rock-Caves/Mountains: "Bjarga Brúd"=Hel Shield Maiden: "Skjoldmey" (could be applied to a warrior woman, a valkyria or a priestess of Odin) Flour/treasure of Memory: "neit Menjo" (in reality, "Menja´s treasure/flour". Menja was a giantess/valkyria in the poem Grottasongr, and her name may either mean Memory of Necklace-Bearer, i.e.Freya. Snorri stated that the metaphor was a way of describing the Red Gold). Rich Brew Ingredient: "Audhumbla", like the norns, valkyrias and goddesses and the Aesir, she was from the mythical South - the place of life´s and divinity´s origin, and the place where Fate works from. Thus I call her a goddess. She took the form of a cosmic cow that created heat and motion and thus life in the primordeal universe. The cow as the primordeal creator goddess is well known in many Indoeuropean and other mythical traditions. She was the "Milking Cow" that nurtured Ymir, the first living being, and who defrosted Bur, grandfather of the Aesir, who had lived witthin the icy mists of Hel. The claim that he had been hibernating since the previous universe is based on the Völuspá poem st.2 stating that there were nine worlds before the present world, and Snorri´s description of how NiflHel was the source of new life in the very beginning. In the poem