A servant in this text complains about leaving his "sweet life and swine-keeping" before his heart is cut out.
A servant in this text complains about leaving his "sweet life and swine-keeping" before his heart is cut out. In this text, Kostbera interprets a dream of an eagle splashing her with blood as a sign not to send her husband to war. A messenger in it changes a warning written on some runes to encourage a pair of brothers to attend a dinner where they will be murdered. A character in this text plays a harp with his feet to avoid being eaten in a pit of snakes. Two children in this text are tested by having to open a bag of flour containing snakes, and by having threads sewn into their arms and (*) ripped out. The title character is conceived when his mother eats a magic apple delivered by a giantess and becomes pregnant for six years. Honey is smeared on the face of a hero of this work to save him from a shapeshifting she-wolf. One character in this work pulls a sword from the tree Barnstokk, while another kills the dragon Fafnir. For 10 points, name this Norse saga about an ill-fated family that includes Sigurd and Sigmund.
A servant in this text complains about leaving his "sweet life and swine-keeping" before his heart is cut out.
Volsung saga [prompt on "Poetic Edda"] 