• Angantyr was the name of three male characters from the same line in Norse mythology, and who appear in Hervarar saga, Gesta Danorum, and Faroese ballads...
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    line 115, together with his father Heiðrekr (Heathoric), half-brother Angantyr (Incgentheow), and his mother Sifka (Sifeca). Hlöd had grown up with his...
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    Hervararkviða, (published in English translation as The Waking of Angantyr, or The Incantation of Hervor) is an Old Norse poem from the Hervarar saga,...
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    daughter as his wife and had a son Angantyr and eleven other brothers. He passed the sword to Angantyr. Later, Angantyr wished to marry Ingeborg, daughter...
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    sunrise on the summit of the tower and looking southward towards the forest; Angantyr marshalling his men for battle and remarking dryly that there used to be...
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    the Poetic Edda. The first, the Viking Hervör, challenged her father Angantýr's ghost in his gravemound for his cursed sword Tyrfing. She had a son, Heidrek...
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    not the poem. Heiðrekr, king of the Goths, had two sons, Angantýr and Hlöðr. Only Angantýr was legitimate, so he inherited his father's kingdom. Hlöðr...
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  • the Hervarar saga, and probably also in Widsith, together with his sons Angantyr (Incgentheow) and Hlöð (Hlith), and Hlöð's mother Sifka (Sifeca). The etymology...
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  • saga when Angantyr has avenged his father Heidrek and retaken the Dwarf-cursed sword Tyrfing: And when it was close on midnight, Angantyr went up to...
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    The Angantyr is a Swedish motor vessel, and former steam ship, that was built in 1909 at Motala Verkstads Nya AB. She now operates cruises and charters...
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    the North. The eldest was a head taller than the rest and his name was Angantyr, and it was to him that Arngrim had entrusted the sword Tyrfing, which...
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    called Angantyr, Hjörvard, Hervard, Hrani, Barri, Tyrfing, Tind, two Haddings, Bui, Bild and Toki. According to the H version, their names were Angantyr, Hjorvard...
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    inheritance. Angantyr offered a great many riches and a third of the Goth kingdom, but before Hlöd could answer, Gizur reminded Angantyr that Hlöd was...
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  • Ongendus (perhaps Angantyr in Danish) was a king of the Danes, reigning c. 710, the first Danish king known from contemporary literature. He was presumably...
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  • new sentence in the second half-line. This example is from the Waking of Angantyr: Fornyrðislag had a variant form called málaháttr ("meter of speeches")...
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    the sons of Arngrim, Örvar-Oddr had to bring the dead Hjalmar (killed by Angantyr) to Uppsala and his betrothed Ingeborg, the daughter of the Swedish king...
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    a Danish prince Angantyr is known to have flourished in 811, and the name is extremely unusual. The recurrence of the names Angantyr, Sigfred, Harald...
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  • "boar". It is widely agreed that Ongenþeow is identical to King Egil (also Angantyr) in the Ynglingasaga. In this saga, Egil is killed by a bull, which likely...
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  • Harald Fairhair. Arngrím married Eyfura who bore him Angantýr the Berserk (Angantýr berserkr). Angantýr's story is most fully treated in the Hervarar saga...
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    Hervarar saga contains a poem named Hlöðskviða, where the Gothic king Angantýr defeats a Hunnish invasion led by his Hunnish half-brother Hlöðr. Knowing...
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    Ongentheow (Old English: Ongenþeow, Ongenþio, Ongendþeow; Old Norse: Angantýr) (died ca. 515) was the name of a semi-legendary Swedish king of the house...
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  • Hemming, a leader of the Black Danes confederation Markjan Winnick as King Angantyr, a leader of the Black Danes confederation Gavan Ó Connor Duffy as King...
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  • Hemming, c. 810 to c. 812. Nephew of Gudfred. Brother of Ragnvald, Håkon and Angantyr. Gudfred (Godfred or Gøtrik), a Danish king c. 804 to 810. Said to be father...
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    of the Goths and the Huns), extracted from Hervarar saga. The Waking of Angantýr, extracted from Hervarar saga. The Elder or Poetic Edda has been translated...
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    meaning wet 1950 – Herr Hålms öden och Angantyr (Mister Hålms [pronounced Holmes] fate and Angantyr) * Öden och Angantyr is a play on the often used Öden och...
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    Hugleik is the first Danish king mentioned in European sources. Ongendus (Angantyr): c. 710 Saint Willibrord wrote about when he visited the Danes, at the...
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    Hervarar saga, where Arngrim's sons meet Erik's successor Yngvi (see e.g. Angantyr and Hjalmar). That the duel occurred at the end of a "secret interview"...
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  • a Local Government Area of Kano State Tofa (Poetic Edda), the wife of Angantyr and mother of Hervor in the Poetic Edda Tofa Fakunle, Canadian soccer player...
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    for whom the first track from the ( ) album is named. and two sons, Dýri Angantýr (born January 2010), and Jón Stormur (born November 2012). He's also the...
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    and in Hervarar saga. According to the Hervarar saga and the Waking of Angantyr, the mounds of the slain berserkers were haunted. This did not stop Arngrim's...
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