Hunaland and its people are mentioned several times in the Poetic Edda, in the Fornaldarsagas, and in chivalric romances. Its origins are partly the old...
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Siggeir is plotting to overthrow Völsung and add Hunaland to his empire. Signý returns to Hunaland to gather Völsung, Sigmund, and their most powerful...
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stallion. According to Völsunga saga, Völsung was the son of King Rerir of Hunaland, in turn, a grandson of Odin. The king and the queen were struggling to...
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Sigi, succeeds his murdered father and avenges his death. He rules in Hunaland and becomes a powerful ruler. Rerir's son is Völsung. Rerir and his wife...
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from the land and led successful raids, so much so that he became king of Húnaland, a country name referring both to the territories of the Franks, also known...
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(naefrmaðr, 'birch bark man'), a sort of wildman dressed in bark. He arrived in Hunaland and meets King Herrauðr, where his true identity was soon revealed due...
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they are cursed with a type of lycanthropy. Sigmund and Sinfjǫtli go to Hunaland where Sigmund is proclaimed king of the Huns. He marries Borghild and has...
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Thidrekssaga, however, which is based on North German sources, locates Hunaland in northern Germany, with a capital at Soest in Westphalia. In other Old...
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is unnamed in Beowulf. Signy was the only daughter of King Völsung of Hunaland and Hljod the giantess. She and her twin brother Sigmund were the oldest...
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tradition. In the Þiðreks saga, Attila is a Frisian prince who conquers the Hunaland, and there is an allusion to at least one other forgotten legend concerning...
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it is liked to Theodoric the Great, it should be the Mediterranean Sea. Hunaland A legendary location, inspired by the Frankish kingdom (Hugones in Latin)...
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between Sweden's (Vilkinaland) king Osantrix and Attila who had conquered Hunaland from Osantrix and taken his daughter. Eventually, Attila had to call on...
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Vaði from Sjaelland. He is sent as an apprentice to Mímir, a smith from Húnaland. But Sigurðr is also there by that time, and he beats the other apprentices...
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takes place in Russia (Rússía), a country located between Gardariki and Hunaland, the land of the Huns. There are also adventures in Halogaland and Jotunheim...
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southerners. The original name may not have been preserved. The king of Húnaland, and the father-in-law of Hildebrand1. Ásmundar saga kappabana Laurin Middle...
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seeks refuge in Susat, the capital in the kingdom called Hunaland. The king of this Hunaland is called Attala, Attila, Atilius or Aktilius in the Thidrekssaga...
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the saga thus: In the absence of King Knútr of Sjóland, King Ásmundr of Húnaland betroths himself to Knút's daughter, Signý. Meanwhile another young king...
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