Örvar-Oddr (Old Norse: Ǫrvar-Oddr [ˈɔrvɑr-ˌodːr̩], "Arrow-Odd" or "Arrow's Point") is a legendary hero about whom an anonymous Icelander wrote a fornaldarsaga...
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Hjalmar and his duel for Ingeborg figures in the Hervarar saga and in Orvar-Odd's saga, as well as in Gesta Danorum, Lay of Hyndla and a number of Faroese...
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Hjalmar and Orvar-Odd's crewmen and began to cut them to pieces. Hjalmar and Orvar-Odd arrived to the scene to find their crew slain and Orvar-Odd, with only...
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Oscar Patric Sturzen-Becker (redirect from Orvar Odd)
Swedish poet, writer and journalist, who often wrote under the pseudonym Orvar Odd. He wrote several volumes of poetry, and worked at different newspapers...
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sworn brother Orvar-Odd; but Hjalmar, being wounded by Tyrfing, has only time to sing his death-song before he dies, and asks Orvar-Odd to bring his body...
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impenetrable armour, such as the shirt made by elves and used in battle by Örvar-Oddr (Ørvar Odd), as related in the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. The saga was translated...
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bore that name. Namely, in Lejrekroniken, Gesta Danorum, and the Saga of Orvar-Odd; see Nerman (1925), p. 246-50. Lindbergh, Katarina Harrison (6 March 2017)...
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a legendary battle, when the Swedish champion Hjalmar and his friend Orvar-Odd fought against the twelve sons of the Swedish berserker Arngrim. This...
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twelve sons would be slain by the Swedish champion Hjalmar and his friend Orvar-Odd. According to the Hervarar saga, versions U and H, she was the daughter...
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passages of the poetry in Heiðreks saga also appear in variant forms in Örvar-Odd's saga (lines 97–9, 103-6), and the outline story of the duel between Arngrímr...
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Other sagas deal with heroes such as Ragnar Lodbrok, Hrólf Kraki and Orvar-Odd. In these respects, then, the fornaldarsögur overlap in genre and occasionally...
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location. The location is also mentioned in Ásmundar saga kappabana and in Orvar-Odd's saga. In the latter saga, it is mentioned in the Swedish hero Hjalmar's...
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protagonist of Gríms saga loðinkinna, and the grandfather of Orvar-Odd, the protagonist of Örvar-Odds saga. In the opening lines of Egil's saga, which features...
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saga, Gesta Danorum, Lay of Hyndla, a number of Faroese ballads and Orvar-Odd's saga in Norse mythology. According to versions H and U, Arngrim went...
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killed in battle against the Swedish hero Hjalmar and his Norwegian friend Orvar-Odd.[citation needed] The "Hversu Noregr Byggðist" tells that Dag's father...
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Oleg". In Scandinavian traditions, this legend lived on in the saga of Orvar-Odd. Many fairy-tales, such as The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs, The...
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S2CID 163226540. Fox, Michael (2020). Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odd's saga and Tolkien. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-48133-9. Frantzen...
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Aslög (1856) King Aella's messenger before Ragnar Lodbrok's sons (1857) Orvar-Odd relates of Hjalmar's death (1859) Children playing in garden (1866) Blenda...
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A scene from the Hervarar saga, Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar bid each other farewell, by Mårten Eskil Winge (1866)....
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Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar. Ingeborg appears in the Tyrfing Cycle, e.g. Orvar-Odd's saga and Hervarar saga. Áli's inclusion here is based on Beowulf, the...
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Danorum, Orvar-Odd's saga and Lay of Hyndla, there are two Haddingjar among the twelve sons of the berserker Arngrim. Oddly, in Orvar-Odd's saga, after...
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similar or related content, including the English Widsith, as well as Orvar-Odd's Saga and the Gesta Danorum. The historicity of the "Battle of the Goths...
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rereleased by Anticon in 2003. In 2005, Odd Nosdam released his first proper solo album, Burner, which features Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason of múm, Jessica...
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Ragnar Lodbrok's saga. In the Hervarar saga, it is where Hjalmar and Orvar-Odd fought Angantyr and his brothers, the sons of Arngrim. Later, Angantyr's...
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Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar. Ingeborg appears in the Tyrfing Cycle, e.g. Orvar-Odd's saga and Hervarar saga. Áli's inclusion here is based on Beowulf, the...
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Hrafnista (Ramsta, Nærøy) in Hålogaland Gríms saga loðinkinna – its sequel Örvar-Odd's saga – their sequel Egill Skallagrímsson – hero of Egil's saga and Icelandic...
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Hafgufa (section Odd's saga)
Richard Constant, ed. (1888). Ǫrvar-Odds saga. E. J. Brill. p. 132. Edwards, Paul; Pálsson, Hermann (trr.) (1970). Arrow-Odd: a medieval novel. New York...
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holmgang, he and his brothers are killed by Hjálmar and Orvar-Odd. Hervarar saga, Orvar-Odd's saga, Gesta Danorum Hjörvard2 Wulfing Old Norse: Hiǫrvarðr...
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laid under the ends of the gangways from the shore to the ships. In Orvar-Odd's saga, Hjalmar laments his dying: The location is also mentioned in other...
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