Heidrek or Heiðrekr (Old Norse: [ˈhɛiðˌrekz̠]) is one of the main characters in the cycle about the magic sword Tyrfing. He appears in the Hervarar saga...

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...

had two sons, Heidrek and Angantyr (the second). Hervor gave Heidrek the sword Tyrfing in secret. While Angantyr and Heidrek walked, Heidrek showed Angantyr...

female characters in the Tyrfing Cycle, presented in The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek with parts found in the Poetic Edda. The first, the Viking Hervör, challenged...

in 1954. Away from his father's writings, he published The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise: "Translated from the Icelandic with Introduction, Notes and Appendices...

Glæsisvellir and they had the sons Heidrek and Angantyr. Angantyr would be the next of Tyrfing's victims. Angantyr's brother Heidrek had made himself impossible...

The riddles of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, also known as Gátur Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'), Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál...

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, but...

use. Impenetrable armour occurs in Norse mythology in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, a story that Tolkien certainly knew and could have used for his mithril...

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 Sweden following...

or mythological event. Gollum and King Heidrek were both angry and frustrated with their opponent. King Heidrek becomes violent and swings his sword, Tyrfing...

Hlöd or Hlod was the illegitimate son of Heidrek, the king of the Geats, in Norse mythology. He appears in the Hervarar saga and probably also as Hlith...

foster-father of Heidrek, who made a coup-d'état in Reidgotaland, the land of the Goths (see Oium and the Chernyakhov culture). When Heidrek was dead, Gizur...

Colonne – Historia destructionis Troiae Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervar and Heidrek) Gerbert de Montreuil – Le Roman de la Violette Raghavanka...

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 named...

earth. Dellingr is also attested in the legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. Scholars have proposed that Dellingr is the personified dawn and his name...

in a riddle found in the 13th century legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, in the 13th-century legendary saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the...

for Gaut or Gauti. According to Hervarar saga ok Heidreks konungs ("The Saga of Hervor and King Heidrek") versions H and U: Sigrlami. He was son of Odin...

appearing in two medieval Scandinavian legendary texts: Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and (in the Latinised form as Gestiblindus) in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta...

other Romanized populations. According to Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek), a 13th-century legendary saga, Árheimar was the capital...

skjaldmær most often shows up in fornaldarsögur such as Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. However, female warriors are also mentioned in the Latin work Gesta Danorum...

Ragnar Lodbrok, Tale of Ragnar's Sons, Heimskringla, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum, and many other Icelandic sources, Ragnar...

sacrificing his last son, Egil.[citation needed] In the Saga of Hervor and Heidrek, Heidrek agrees to the sacrifice of his son in exchange for command over half...

recounted in several sources such as the Norse sagas Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Bósa saga ok Herrauðs and Sǫgubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum, but it is...

family line. In the 13th century legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, the poem Heiðreks gátur contains a riddle that mentions Sleipnir and Odin: 36....

Press. Crawford, Jackson (2021). Two sagas of mythical heroes : Hervor and Heidrek & Hrólf Kraki and his champions, Glossary for The Saga of Hrólf Kraki and...

York: Praeger Publishers. Tolkien, Christopher (trans.), The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (London: Nelson, 1960), p. 67 fn. 4. Media related to Glomma at...

king Heidrek is asked by Gestumblindi (Odin), "What is that lamp which lights up men, but flame engulfs it, and wargs grasp after it always." Heidrek knows...

(wife of Ingjald) 7th century: Princess of Småland, daughter of king Heidrek of Småland, (wife of Ivar Vidfamne) 8th century: Inghild of Sweden (wife...

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 on the manuscript)...