• Skofnung was the sword of legendary Danish king Hrólf Kraki. "The best of all swords that have been carried in northern lands", It was renowned for supernatural...
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  • Beowulf's magical swords. Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar – Legendary Persian sword. Skofnung – sword of legendary Danish king Hrólf Kraki. Thunderbolt – as wielded...
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    berserker bodyguards. A cut made by Skofnung will not heal. The only way to stop this is by touching the cut with the Skofnung stone. Tyrfing (also Tirfing or...
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    sword of Högni, named Dáinnleif after the dwarf Dáinn (Skáldskaparmál), Skofnung and Hviting, two sword-names from the Kormáks saga, Nægling and Hrunting...
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    raised a mound for Hrólfr Kraki where he was buried together with his sword Skofnung. The Skjöldunga saga relates that Helgo (Halga) was the king of Denmark...
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  • Blitzen and Hearthstone travel to the Provincetown barrow but discover the Skofnung Sword instead of Thor's hammer. Loki appears and tells the quartet that...
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  • forced to face his past in the second book, when he has to collect the Skofnung Stone from his father, Alderman, who wants him to finish the blood tax...
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  • that the Giant Thrym has the hammer, and tells the group to retrieve the Skofnung Sword. The god Loki arranges a marriage between Samirah and the Giant so...
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  • raised a mound for Hrólfr Kraki where he was buried together with his sword Skofnung. Hrolf Kraki's Saga, a novel by American author Poul Anderson retelling...
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  • is forged by the smith Mime (Mimir). Skofnung Old Norse: Skǫfnungr Skǫfnungr was a type of weapon, e.g. skǫfnungs-ǫx (an axe). The name is a later form...
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    chieftain, Skeggi Skinna-Bjarnarson (who is also the owner of the famous sword Skofnung), and a simmering tension develops between the two men. Events take an...
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  • raised a mound for Hrólfr Kraki where he was buried together with his sword Skofnung. The Chronicon Lethrense (and the included Annales Lundenses) tell that...
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