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    Signification in Norna-Gests þáttr", Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 104 (1989), 103-22 McDonald, Sheryl, "Pagan Past and Christian Future in Norna-Gests þáttr and Bárðar...
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    "Book IX". The Danish History – via Wikisource. "Norna-Gests þáttr". see also Norna-Gests þáttr "Norna-Gests þáttr". Translated by Hardman. Archived from the...
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  • Gunnars þáttr helmings) Ölkofra þáttr Ásbjarnar þáttr Selsbana Helga þáttr ok Úlfs Helga þáttr Þórissonar Norna-Gests þáttr Ragnarssona þáttr Sörla þáttr Tóka...
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  • from the same era. One of the texts may have been written in Norway. Norna-Gests þáttr has a brief mention of the king of Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd Hring...
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    Norns (redirect from Nornas)
    as Norna-Gests þáttr and Hrólfs saga kraka, the norns appear to have been synonymous with völvas (witches, female shamans). In Norna-Gests þáttr, where...
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    though that his brother, Regin, is described as being a dwarf in Norna-Gests þáttr and resembling a dwarf (Old Norse: dvergr of vǫxt), however, it is...
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    he had lost a finger. The battle ended with Swedish victory. In Norna-Gests þáttr, the account of Starkad takes place not long after the victory at...
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    Such as Nornagests þáttr ("the Story of Norna-Gest"), Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa ("Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion"), Hróa þáttr heimska ("The Tale...
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    nebst Vǫlsunga-saga und Nornagests-þáttr [The Prose Edda in excerpt along with Völsunga saga and Norna-Gests þáttr]. Bibliothek der ältesten deutschen...
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    Hervarar saga Hversu Noregr byggdist Norna-Gests þáttr Orvar-Odd's saga Ragnar Lodbrok's saga Ragnarssona þáttr Skjöldunga saga Sögubrot Ellehøj, Svend...
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    Helga þáttr Þórissonar Jökuls þáttr Búasonar 'Norna-Gests þáttr Ragnarssona þáttr Sörla þáttr Tóka þáttr Tókasonar Völsa þáttr Þorsteins þáttr bæjarmagns...
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    Widsith. Heaðolaf (Beowulf) Helgi Hundingsbane (Edda, Völsunga saga and Norna-Gests þáttr) Hjörvard Ylfing (e.g. Heimskringla and Sögubrot) Hjörmund (e.g. Heimskringla...
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    with Swedish, Danish and Icelandic Vikings. In c. 750, according to Norna-Gests þáttr saga from c. 1157, Sigurd Ring, a legendary king of Denmark and Sweden...
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  • in dedication to them. Together with Sörla þáttr, Tóka þáttr Tókasonar, Norna-gests þáttr and Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts, the tale is part of a subgenre of...
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    sarcophagi. Meleager's story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests þáttr. Meleager in art Meleager et Atalanta, after Giulio Romano Statue...
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    Hversu Noregr byggdist, however omits the Kvenland part completely. Norna-Gests þáttr saga from the early 14th century tells that Kvens (probably referring...
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    Sunniva (redirect from Seljumanna thattr)
    Oddr's þáttr is classified in the subgenre of "pagan-contact þættir" alongside Sörla þáttr, Tóka þáttr Tókasonar, Norna-gests þáttr and Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts;...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Latvia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5515-1. Norna-Gests þáttr, c. 1157, Níkulás Bergsson, Iceland. Rev. W. C. Green. The Story of...
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    with Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic Vikings. In c. 750, according to Norna-Gests þáttr saga from c. 1157, Sigurd Hring ("ring"), a legendary king of Denmark...
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    Traditionally, six sagas are counted as Heldensagas: Völsunga saga, Norna-Gests þáttr, Hervarar saga, Hrólfs saga kraka, Sǫgubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum...
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    ('Ólafr the elf of Geirstaðir'), and a demonic elf at the beginning of Norna-Gests þáttr. The legendary sagas tend to focus on elves as legendary ancestors...
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    result of this later conflation, seen in later saga material like Norna-Gests þáttr, Hrólfs saga kraka and Þiðriks saga. Landvættir have been argued to...
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    Poetic Edda. Most of the poem (except stanza 6) is also quoted in Norna-Gests þáttr. Henry Adams Bellows says in his commentaries that the poem is a masterpiece...
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    names in Germanic heroic legend The heroic sagas: Völsunga saga, Norna-Gests þáttr, Hervarar saga, Hrólfs saga kraka, Sǫgubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum...
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  • legendary sagas: Bósa saga ok Herrauðs Helga þáttr Þórissonar Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks Norna-Gests þáttr Þorsteins þáttr bæjarmagns He also appears in Saxo Grammaticus'...
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    Talk of the Tits: Some Notes on the Death of Sigurðr Fáfnisbani in Norna Gests þáttr. The Retrospective Methods Network (RMN) Newsletter: Approaching Methodology...
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  • Medieval Scandinavia 2 (2006) 275–96: "Helga þáttr Þórissonar, Norna-Gests þáttr, Sörla þáttr, and Tóka þáttr Tókasonar are conversion þættir." Hermann Pálsson...
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    Ragnar the son of Sigurd Ring. Gesta Danorum, Ragnars saga loðbrókar, Norna-Gests þáttr Ragnhild Old Norse: Ragnhildr The first element of the name is from...
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  • gentibus septentrionalibus, Norna-Gests þáttr, Skáldskaparmál, Sögubrot, Ynglinga saga Stigandi Nafnaþulur, Sturlu þáttr Stórverkr Nafnaþulur, Vilhjalms...
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    raven (hrafna seðja, hrafna gleðja). An example of this is found in Norna-Gests þáttr, where Regin recites the following poem after Sigurd kills the sons...
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