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    Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek) is a legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas in Germanic...
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    found in the 13th century legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, in the 13th-century legendary saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the horse Grani...
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  • name appearing in two medieval Scandinavian legendary texts: Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and (in the Latinised form as Gestiblindus) in Saxo Grammaticus'...
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    Hrólf Kraki. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks - a saga which may be of Swedish origin containing Swedish, Geatish and Gothic heroes. This saga still serves as...
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    is also listed first in most medieval Swedish king lists. The Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks has in some versions an addition which gives a regnal list of...
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  • tradition". Five riddles found in the poem Heiðreks gátur contained in the legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks employ the phrase "Delling's doors" (Old...
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    the king in Skáldatal and Landnámabók. Early Swedish history "Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks" Archived 2007-05-08 at the National and University Library of...
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    Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Tale of Ragnar's Sons, Heimskringla, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum, and many other Icelandic sources...
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  • remained in use. Impenetrable armour occurs in Norse mythology in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, a story that Tolkien certainly knew and could have used for his...
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    English translation and Old Norse and for general commentary see Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. The versions differ in terms of names, and various details but...
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  • The riddles of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, also known as Gátur Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'), Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál...
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    Norse: skjaldmær most often shows up in fornaldarsögur such as Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. However, female warriors are also mentioned in the Latin work...
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    name Hunnenschlachtlied, is an Old Norse heroic poem found in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. Many attempts have been made to try to fit it with known history...
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  • (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022., from the Icelandic Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks As editor Chaucer, Geoffrey (1958) [1387–1400]. ———; Coghill,...
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    manuscript sources, and stemmatics, see Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. As well as appearing in translations of the Hervarar saga, the poem is also found translated...
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  • delle Colonne – Historia destructionis Troiae Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervar and Heidrek) Gerbert de Montreuil – Le Roman de la Violette...
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    "Eyrbyggja saga". heimskringla.no. Retrieved 2 July 2022. "Grímnismál". Retrieved 27 July 2022. "Hávamál". Retrieved 24 July 2022. "Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks"....
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  • Goths (section In the sagas)
    Romanized populations. According to Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek), a 13th-century legendary saga, Árheimar was the capital of Reidgotaland...
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    described in some sources as either resembling or being a dwarf. In Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, the sword Tyrfing is forged, and subsequently cursed, by a dwarf...
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  • were made in some forms of a tradition known as heitstrenging. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks refers to the tradition of swearing oaths on Yule Eve by laying...
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    Lodbrok. According to Bósa saga ok Herrauds, there was once a saga on Sigurd Ring, but this saga is now lost. The Hervarar saga tells that when the Danish...
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  • Lay of Hyndla Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum Af Upplendinga konungum Ynglinga saga Njáls saga Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en...
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  • short time. Then Eric the son of Refil succeeded to the Kingdom. "Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks", Guðni Jónsson's and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson's edition at Norrøne...
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    riddles are rare in Old Norse: almost all occur in one section of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, in which the god Óðinn propounds around 37 riddles (depending...
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  • is an Old Norse word meaning 'beautiful'. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks J. R. R. Tolkien Legendary saga Norse saga Prose Edda The Waking of Angantýr (Early...
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    battle is recounted in several sources such as the Norse sagas Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Bósa saga ok Herrauðs and Sǫgubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum, but it...
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    Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight. Turville-Petre, E. O. G. (1976). Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Vol. 2). Viking Society for Northern Research. Honegger, T.(2013)...
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    Jólnir, referring to the event. Both Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks provide accounts of the custom of heitstrenging. In these sources...
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    Barefoot's Saga" Archived May 7, 2005, at the Wayback Machine from Heimskringla at the Online Medieval & Classical Library. "Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks", Guðni...
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    death song" is found inserted in the older text of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks as well as in Örvar-Odds saga, though the texts diverge considerably. In German...
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