[T]he Volsung legend is [.] a foundational story for many Northern European nation-states including Iceland, England, and famously, Germany. The reflexes of the Volsung legend manifest in much material artwork and in such literary masterworks asBeowulf, the Nibelungenlied, Völsungasaga, the Eddic poems and Icelandic rímur, and the Faroese ballads concerning the Volsung legend. Of this formidable list, the Faroese ballads have received the least scholarly attention, and to note this fact is to understate matters.[.] We must be grateful to Leslie-Jacobsen and Jacobsen and the other participants in this project for reminding us of this critically understudied tradition and for re-presenting this "unparalleled and undervalued material" (17) to us in such an accessible and conscientious edition. This reviewer is personally grateful for this set of thoughtful and often beautiful translations; I will certainly use them in my classroom, both when I next teach a dedicated seminar on "dragonslayers" and when I offer my survey of Old Norse storytelling traditions.