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    Viking Hervör, challenged her father Angantýr's ghost in his gravemound for his cursed sword Tyrfing. She had a son, Heidrek, father of the other Hervör. The...
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  • In Norse mythology, Hervör alvitr (Old Norse, alvitr possibly meaning "all-wise" or "strange creature") is a valkyrie. Hervör alvitr is attested in the...
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    attested in the Poetic Edda poem Völundarkviða as the sister of the valkyrie Hervör alvitr (both daughters of King Hlödvér), and as the seven-year wife of Slagfiðr...
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    Hervarakviða, which largely comprises dialogue between Hervör and her father. Then the saga relates how Hervör marries and has a son Heiðrekr, who becomes king...
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    inheritance, Angantýr refused to split evenly and war ensued, claiming first Hervör, their sister, then Hlöðr himself as casualties. The first verses frame...
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    in English translation as The Waking of Angantyr, or The Incantation of Hervor) is an Old Norse poem from the Hervarar saga, and which is sometimes included...
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  • host was far superior in numbers, so that Hervör's troops began to suffer heavy losses; and in the end Hervör fell, and a great part of her army round...
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  • Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. English translation by N. Kershaw: "The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek" Archived December 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine in Stories...
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  • Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. English translation by N. Kershaw: "The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek" Archived December 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine in Stories...
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    In another version, Völundr married the swan maiden Hervör, and they had a son, Heime, but Hervör later left Völundr. In both versions, his love left...
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    mentioned by name in the Norse sagas include Brynhildr in the Vǫlsunga saga, Hervor in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, the Brynhildr of the Bósa saga ok Herrauðs...
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  • Romanized populations. According to Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek), a 13th-century legendary saga, Árheimar was the capital of...
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    commanded by Hervor, the sister of Angantyr and Hlöd, together with Ormar, her foster-father. One morning as the sun was rising above the steppes, Hervor stood...
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    3 vols., (Saint Louis: CPH, 1920), 3:575: "Hieraus geht sicher so viel hervor, daß die abgeschiedenen Seelen der Gläubigen in einem Zustande des seligen...
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    Sigrid and Leif's wedding. Rahul Kohli as Egill Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Hervor Hakeem Kae-Kazim as Baldr Peter Franzén as Glaumar Paget Brewster as Jarnglumra...
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    daughters of King Hlödvér are named Hlaðguðr svanhvít ("swan-white") and Hervör alvitr (possibly meaning "all-wise" or "strange creature"); the third, daughter...
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    him from 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...
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    issuing his challenge and his death, and through her had a daughter Hervor. Hervor was brought up as a bond-servant, and inherited her father's prowess...
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    Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. English translation by N. Kershaw: "The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek" Archived 2006-12-27 at the Wayback Machine in Stories and...
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    Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. English translation by N. Kershaw: "The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek" Archived 2006-12-27 at the Wayback Machine in Stories and...
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  • by the Norwegian artist Peter Nicolai Arbo in his 19th century painting Hervor's Death, though when she falls as if dead, the film scene looks in her opinion...
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  • 2007-05-08 at the National and University Library of Iceland "The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek, in Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the...
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  • Basketball Association where he served until 1983. Helgi is married to Hervör Jónasdóttir and together they have four children. Their granddaughter is...
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  • so that it would no longer cause any harm. However Angantyr's daughter Hervor would later return and claim Tyrfing as her own. This event is known as...
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    (Oresteia III); Two versions: 2nd publ. in 1832 451 451 Prometheus, D 451 Hervor aus Buschen und Baumen 17/6/1816 Text by Draexler von Carin [de]; Lost;...
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  • svanhvít ok Hervör alvitr, in þriðja var Ölrún Kjársdóttir af Vallandi. Two of them were daughters of King Hlothver, Hlathguth the Swan-White and Hervor the All-Wise...
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    reflect the suffix vör that appears in personal names such as Geirvör and Hervör. Simek (2007:102). Jónsson (1973:678). Jónsson, Finnur (1973). Den Norsk-Islandske...
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  • 2014 Neptun Werft 135 m / 443 ft 3,138 tons   Switzerland 95 190 Viking Hervor 9916848 2020 Neptun Werft 135 m / 443 ft 3,138 tons   Switzerland 95 190...
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  • Reformed Church (Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ɦɛrˈvɔr(ə)mdə ˈkɛr(ə)k], abbreviated NHK [ˌɛnɦaːˈkaː]) was the largest Christian...
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    his Hunnish half-brother Hlöðr. Knowing that his sister, the shieldmaiden Hervör, is one of the casualties, Angantýr looks at his dead brother and laments...
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