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    Edda. It constitutes one of the Helgi lays together with Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. Henry Adams Bellows maintains in his commentaries...
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    saga and in two lays in the Poetic Edda named Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The Poetic Edda relates that Helgi and his mistress...
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    It constitutes one of the Helgi lays, together with Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The locations in the poem have been fervently...
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    Völuspá, Grímnismál, Völundarkviða, Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Sigrdrífumál. In stanza 30 of the...
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    and in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, the hero Helgi Hundingsbane has just been born and norns arrive at the homestead: In Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, Helgi...
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    Helgi Hundingsbane who had two poems of his own (Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II), in the Poetic Edda, and whose story is also retold...
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  • Helgakviða may refer to: Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar ("Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson"), a poem collected in the Poetic Edda Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, the First...
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    and Sigrdrífumál, aldar rof ('destruction of the age') from Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, regin þrjóta ('end of the gods') from Hyndluljóð, and, in the...
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    referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 32...
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    valkyrie in Norse mythology. Her story is related in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, in the Poetic Edda. The original editor annotated...
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    such as Sigrún (who is attested in the poems Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II). Valkyrie names commonly emphasize associations...
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    Fetters (Old Norse: Fjöturlundr) is mentioned in the Eddic poem "Helgakviða Hundingsbana II": Helgi obtained Sigrún, and they had sons. Helgi lived not to...
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    describes the death of Sinfjötli, son of Sigmundr, connecting Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Grípisspá. Borghildr, wife of Sigmundr, wanted Sinfjötli,...
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    Codex Regius manuscript where it follows Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and precedes Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The portion of text which constitutes the...
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  • over water," such as in the Poetic Edda poems Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. Orchard (1997:194). Simek (2007:218). Orchard...
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  • specifically referenced in the Völuspá (st. 30/7; NK, p. 7), Helgakviða Hundingsbana II (st. 7/4; NK, p. 152), and the Prose Edda. Her name is an Old...
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  • valkyrie, attested in the prose epilogue of the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The epilogue details that "there was a belief in the pagan religion...
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    there was a belief in rebirth in Germanic paganism. In Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar in the Poetic Edda describe the rebirth...
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  • of "Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar", there is a statement that Helgi Hjörvarðsson and Sváva were subsequently born again, and at the end of "Helgakviða Hundingsbana...
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  • Comparisons have been made between this reference and the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, recorded in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources...
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  • referred to in the myth. A reference to the river Leiptr appears in Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, where the Valkyrie Sigrún puts a curse on her brother Dagr for...
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  • fragmentary accounts survive. It is said in the end section of Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, a poem of the Poetic Edda, that the hero Helgi Hundingsbane and...
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    the chronology has been reversed in the poems. The Helgi Lays Helgakviða Hundingsbana I or Völsungakviða (The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane, The First...
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    grove. A grove of fetters is also mentioned in the eddic poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. Ptolemy's map of Germania mentions a forest called Semanus Silva...
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  • servant grinding grain, is very close to an escapade of Helgi in Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. It is probably not a historic account of real events since it...
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    Proto-Norse. Jacob Grimm points out that dís Skjöldunga in the Eddic Helgakviða Hundingsbana II (v. 52) is exactly parallel to ides Scildinga "Scylding queen"...
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    poetry as a general word for 'king' or 'ruler'. In the eddic poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, Bragi Högnason, his brother Dag, and his sister Sigrún were children...
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    in the Niðafjöll Mountains. Various sagas and the Eddic poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II refer to the dead residing in their graves, where they remain...
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    Óðins nǫfn (5) Blindi, Blindr 'the blind one' Gylfaginning, Helgakviða Hundingsbana II (prose) Brúni, Brúnn 'the brown one' or possibly 'the one with...
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    Horses are also related to the dead in cases such as Helgi in Helgakviða Hundingsbana II when he leaves the land of the living on horseback, and the valkyrjur...
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