• Háleygjatal is a skaldic poem by Eyvindr Skáldaspillir written towards the end of the 10th century to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equals...
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  • and so do also the jarls and the other mighty men, as is said in the Háleygjatal. —Prologue of the Prose Edda (11) Brodeur's translation In the Ynglinga...
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    Háleygjatal og Hyndluljóð [The sacred wedding and Norse royal ideology. An analysis of the hierogamy myth in Skírnismál, Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal and...
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    companions raised a mound over him there. Snorri then cites the poem Háleygjatal by a Norwegian skald named Eyvindr skáldaspillir: This act rendered the...
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  • However, in his preface to the Heimskringla, Snorri says that Eyvindr's Háleygjatal which reckoned up the ancestors of Jarl Hákon brought in Sæming as son...
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    king Jorund (whom Snorri makes a successor of Haki), he cites the poem Háleygjatal by a Norwegian skald named Eyvindr skáldaspillir containing the Kenning...
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  • reception in Valhalla. The poem is similar to the earlier Eiríksmál. Háleygjatal - Recounts the ancestors of earl Hákon back up to Odin and tells of their...
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  • first of men as at this time?" Sigar the younger is also mentioned in Háleygjatal (as quoted in Ynglinga saga), where a gallows is referred to as "Sigar's...
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    presented as ancestors of the Norwegian kings, by Þjóðólfr of Hvinir Háleygjatal ‒ a similar work on the Hlaðir dynasty, by Eyvindr skáldaspillir To these...
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  • the Völva), Freyr is portrayed as "Beli's slayer" (bani Belja, 53). In Háleygjatal, written by 10th-century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir, Freyr is called...
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  • such as Þjóðólfr ór Hvíni's Ynglingatal and Eyvindr Skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal. Other Skaldic meters, sch as dróttkvætt and Hrynhenda were more complex...
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    Norse sagas, and in the Heimskringla, especially the Ynglinga Saga and Háleygjatal. It was inhabited by the race of Hölgi (Háleygja ætt) who was the eponymous...
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    Dweller in Frigg's Embrace Farmagnuðr, Farmǫgnuðr journey empowerer Háleygjatal (2), Skáldskaparmál Farmaguð, Farmatýr Farmagud, Farmatyr 'god of burdens'...
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  • þulur as a troll-wife, and in 10th century skald Eyvindr Skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal (2), referring to the goddess Skaði. Lindow (2001:204-205). Larrington...
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  • Roarer None attested Parents: Gymir, Aurboða Sister: Gerðr Gylfaginning, Háleygjatal, Haustlöng, Skírnismál, Völuspá Bergelmir "Mountain Yeller" or "Bear...
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  • Skáldskaparmál and Gesta Danorum (book 7). The last murder is also referred to in Háleygjatal and in Ynglingatal. CyberSamurai Encyclopedia of Norse Mythology: Prose...
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  • royal line. The poem is modelled after the earlier genealogical poems Háleygjatal and Ynglingatal, with which it shares the metre of kviðuháttr. It is...
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    twice in the original sources. The name is found in the skaldic poems Háleygjatal and Íslendingadrápa where "Lóðurr's friend" is used as a kenning for...
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  • kongeideologi: en analyse av hierogami-myten i Skírnismál, Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal og Hyndluljód (the sacred marriage and Norse ideology of kingship: an...
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  • equivalent in the poem Háleygjatal, which was written by the Norwegian poet Eyvindr skáldaspillir at the end of the 900s. In Háleygjatal it is Odin and the...
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    gallows. Widsith (line 28) Gesta Danorum (VII), Völsunga saga (XXV), Haleygjatal (4), Haraldsdrápa (3), Erfidrápa Óláfs Helga (1) Sigar2 Old Norse: Sigarr...
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  • Helgason Eysteinn Valdason Eyvindr skáldaspillir, author of Hákonarmál and Háleygjatal Guthormr sindri, author of Hákonardrápa Egill Skalla-Grímsson (c. 910...
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  • skáldaspillir Poem composed in memory of Haakon I of Norway After 961 "Háleygjatal" Eyvindr skáldaspillir Poem seeking to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as...
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    men raised a barrow over him. Ynglingatal (12), Ynglinga saga (23), Háleygjatal (4 and 7) Gudmund1 Old Norse: Guðmundr From ON for "God" and "protection"...
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