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    Ragnarsdrápa (Ragnar's Poem) is a skaldic poem said to have been composed in honour of the Scandinavian hero, Ragnar Lodbrok, but likely actually addressed...
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    legend about a never-ending battle which is documented in Sörla þáttr, Ragnarsdrápa, Gesta Danorum, Skíðaríma and in Skáldskaparmál. It is also held to appear...
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    centuries, there are also many older poems that mention him and his kin. The Ragnarsdrápa, ostensibly composed by Bragi Boddason in the 9th century, praises a...
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    Hymiskviða and Völuspá. Other sources include the early skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa and kennings in other skaldic poems; for example, in Þórsdrápa, faðir...
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    earliest known skald from whom verses have survived. Portions of his Ragnarsdrápa are preserved in Snorri Sturluson's Edda. Bragi is known as "the Old"...
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    Skáldskaparmál (21) adds that her mother is Sif. In Bragi Boddason's Ragnarsdrápa, the jötunn Hrungnir is called "thief of Þrúðr" (Þrúðar þjófr). But there...
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    giant Mokkurkálfi are absent from Þjóðólfr’s 10th-century version. In Ragnarsdrápa, the 9th-century skald Bragi Boddason mentions "Hrungnir's skull-splitter"...
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    snake comes from Bragi Boddason who lived in the 9th century, in his Ragnarsdrápa (XIV). "Gylfaginning". Sacred-texts.com. Retrieved February 9, 2013....
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    (Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt), Prose Edda, and Völsunga Saga; the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa; the Danish Latin Gesta Danorum; and the German Latin Annals of Quedlinburg...
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    Harald Fairhair A few surviving skaldic poems have mythological content: Ragnarsdrápa, a shield poem by Bragi Boddason, partially preserved: originally consisted...
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  • If as seems likely it was composed in emulation of Bragi inn gamli's Ragnarsdrápa, it will have had two further episodes. Marold, Edith (2012). "Text -...
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    Fenrisúlfr" is presented as a kenning for Víðarr. In chapter 50, a section of Ragnarsdrápa by the 9th century skald Bragi Boddason is quoted that refers to Hel...
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    'snare, cord, halter' and there is a line in verse 15 of the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa that uses seiðr in that sense. However, it is not clear how this derivation...
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    verse survived in memory. Snorri especially quotes passages from Bragi's Ragnarsdrápa, a poem supposedly composed in honor of the famous legendary Viking Ragnar...
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    is recorded in several medieval sources, including the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa, Skáldskaparmál (section 49), and Gesta Danorum: king Högni's daughter...
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    (Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt), Prose Edda and the Volsunga Saga; the Norwegian Ragnarsdrápa; the Danish Gesta Danorum; and the German Nibelungenlied and Annals of...
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    however, on the basis of a version of the story cited in the Skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa: the narrator there refers to Ermanaric's killers as descendants of Gjúki...
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    painted on shields. For example, the late-9th-century skaldic poem, Ragnarsdrápa, describes some shields painted with mythological scenes. Viking shields...
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    island of Zealand on which Copenhagen is located. The legend appears in Ragnarsdrápa, a 9th-century Skaldic poem recorded in the 13th century Prose Edda,...
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  • Skáldskaparmál Leirvör Nafnaþulur Litr colour. looks, shape, oar Lútr Ragnarsdrápa, Skáldskaparmál Ljóta ugly, terrible Nafnaþulur Ljotur Vilhjalms saga...
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    the company of the quite monstrous wolf's sister") in the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa. In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century...
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    Lindow 2001, p. 209. Orchard 1997, p. 190. This stanza belongs either to Ragnarsdrápa (according to Finnur Jónsson's edition) or to an independent poem about...
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    The Ynglinga saga section of Snorri's Heimskringla and the Eddic poem Ragnarsdrápa tell a legend of how Gylfi was seduced by the goddess Gefjon to give...
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    Heimdallr for Brísingamen. Húsdrápa is often compared with Haustlöng and Ragnarsdrápa which also describe artworks depicting mythological scenes. The poem...
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    Edda as Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt. It also appears in Bragi Boddason's Ragnarsdrápa, in the Völsunga saga, and in Gesta Danorum. Jordanes wrote in 551 that...
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  • was filled with water creating Mälaren. The lake is mentioned in e.g. Ragnarsdrápa, Heimskringla and Ásmundar saga kappabana. Merovingian Old English: Merewīoing...
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    mentions here, as they are lost works. Poems quoted include the Thorsdrápa, Ragnarsdrápa, Húsdrápa, Bjarkamál, and others. Other lost sources believed to be consulted...
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    Edda as Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt. It also appears in Bragi Boddason's Ragnarsdrápa, in the Völsunga saga and in Gesta Danorum. Jordanes wrote in 551 that...
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    Edda as Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt. It also appears in Bragi Boddason's Ragnarsdrápa, in the Völsunga saga and in Gesta Danorum. Jordanes wrote in 551 that...
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    because they are upset with her taunting and him being her favourite. Ragnarsdrápa, Guðrúnarhvöt, Hamðismál, Völsunga saga Annals of Quedlinburg Erpfe3...
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