• Hrólfs saga kraka, the Saga of King Rolf Kraki, is a late legendary saga on the adventures Hrólfr Kraki, a semi-legendary king in what is now Denmark,...
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    Hrólfr Kraki (redirect from Rolf Kraka)
    Fornaldarsögur norðurlanda: Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa hans Sagnanet: Hrólfs saga kraka Anderson, Poul (1973). Hrolf Kraki's Saga. New York: Ballantine Books...
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    Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar - A saga about a Swedish warrior princess who is won by a Geatish prince. Hrólfs saga kraka; A saga which...
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  • married Heoroweard and encouraged him to kill Hroðulf (Hrólfr Kraki) in Hrólfs saga kraka. The accounts of her vary greatly from source to source. Skuld is...
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  • Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum, Icelandic sagas Hrólfs saga kraka, the Skjöldunga saga and the Ynglinga saga, Norse mythological poems Skáldskaparmál and...
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    texts: Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa hans in Old Norse from heimskringla.no University of Oregon: Norse: Fornaldarsögur norðurlanda: Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa...
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    the cruelty of the norns: In younger legendary sagas, such as Norna-Gests þáttr and Hrólfs saga kraka, the norns appear to have been synonymous with völvas...
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  • song appears from elsewhere in her mouth (Ǫrvar-Odds saga and Hrólfs saga kraka). In Hrólfs saga kraka, it is in the beginning of the trance that she breathes...
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    appearing in tales of Hrólfr Kraki in the Hrólfs saga kraka, in the Latin epitome to the lost Skjöldunga saga, and as Biarco in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta...
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    Illugi. A fourth Signy was Hroðgar's sister in Skjöldunga saga and Hrólfs saga kraka. She is unnamed in Beowulf. Signy was the only daughter of King Völsung...
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    of sagas such as the Völsunga saga, Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna, Hrólfs saga kraka, Norna-Gests þáttr, and Ragnars saga loðbrókar. The Prose Edda would...
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    man." An example of referring to one as magnanimous can be seen in Hrólfs saga kraka where King Hrólfr Kraki changes the name of a court servant from Hott...
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  • in several works such as Landnámabók (S 179 / H 45), Hrólfs saga kraka (3) and Örvar-Odds saga (2), where she predicts Örvar's death. Heiðr is also the...
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    clear if he was intended to be depicted with two or four legs. In Hrólfs saga kraka, the sole surviving medieval source referencing Elgfróði, he is the...
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    Ambale's Saga, besides romantic additions, some traits point to an earlier version of the tale. Also comparable is the medieval Hrólfs saga kraka, where...
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  • if it was drawn it must "taste blood" before it can be resheathed. Hrólfs saga kraka, Chapter 45. One of the translations by Peter Tunstall (2005). Oakeshott...
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    century or the 7th century (in the Norse sagas) Thorir (the brother of Bödvar Bjarki and Elgfróði in Hrólfs saga kraka) Sigar?, the father of Siggeir, who...
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  • is an allusion to a legend retold in Skáldskaparmál and Hrólfs saga kraka in which King Hrolf and his men scattered gold on the plains (vellir) of the...
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  • ISBN 9780859914727. Olson, Oscar Ludvig (1916). "The Relation of the Hrólfs saga kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf". Publications of the Society for the...
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    the English Nation, p. 294. ISBN 0-941694-09-7 The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg...
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    combination of Norse sagas. In Hrólfs saga kraka, Bödvar Bjarki adopts the shape of a great bear when he goes to fight. In the Völsunga saga, Sigmund dresses...
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  • (2007). "Hrólfs Saga Kraka and Sámi Bear Rights" (PDF). Saga-Book. 31: 5–21. Olrik, Axel (1907). "Siward Digri of Northumberland" (PDF). Saga-Book. 5:...
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    suggested as a possible parallel; he survives in Hrólfs saga kraka and Saxo's Gesta Danorum, while Hrolf Kraki, one of the Scyldings, appears as "Hrothulf"...
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    American-Scandinavian Foundation. Olson, Oscar Ludvig (1916). "The Relation of the Hrólfs saga kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf". Publications of the Society for the...
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    in Gesta Danorum, Skjöldunga saga and Bjarkarímur, but not in Hrólfr Kraki's saga. The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf...
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  • poem Beowulf Bödvar Bjarki Old Norse "Warlike little-bear" Hero of Hrólfs saga kraka; a skin-changer, bear by day, a man by night berserker Old English...
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    the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg Nerman (1925:150) The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and...
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    library The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg Hrólf Kraki's saga in English translation...
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  • Norse Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa hans: The Saga of Hrolf Kraki and his Champions. Trans. Peter Tunstall (2003). Available at The Saga of Hrolf Kraki Archived...
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    Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-3501-4576-4. Shippey, Tom (2010). ""Hrólfs saga kraka" and the Legend of Lejre". In Martin, Arnold; Finlay, Alison (eds...
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