Gunlöd
opera by Cornelius
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Peter Cornelius, a German composer, wrote the opera Gunlöd. The libretto for Gunlöd was adapted from the Edda. Cornelius is also known for his comic opera Der Barbier von Bagdad. The Völsunga saga, an important Icelandic saga, is the Northern version of the story found in the Nibelungenlied and served as a source for Richard Wagner's operatic Ring tetralogy.12
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