the Bjarkamál to rouse his outnumbered army in the morning before the start of the Battle of Stiklestad, according to Fóstbrœðra saga. In Bjarkamál, Rolf...
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Bödvar Bjarki (section Bjarkamál)
Hrolf, Bjarki, and all of Hrolf's other warriors. The Old Norse poem Bjarkamál (of which only a few stanzas are preserved but which Saxo Grammaticus...
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serves as a side-kick to Beowulf's counterpart Bödvar Bjarki, and in Bjarkamál, Hjalti makes speeches comparable to those made by Wiglaf in Beowulf....
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"Love and Death in the Männerbund: An Essay with Special Reference to the Bjarkamál and The Battle of Maldon". Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies...
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tree among gods and men". In a surviving fragment of the skaldic poem Bjarkamál located in chapter 45, Glasir is again listed as a kenning for gold ("Glasir's...
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greatly. This is an account of the differences: In the paraphrase of Bjarkamál in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus, his army consisted of Swedes...
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Norse: Hœking The name is a kenning for "sword". It probably originates in Bjarkamál, the lay of Bödvar Bjarki, where it means the "sword that Hoc owned",...
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that Hroðgar and Hroðulf defeated them and presumably killed Ingeld. In Bjarkamál he is referred to by Bödvar Bjarki as the father of Agnarr that he has...
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kraki's champions. He is mentioned in one of the few surviving stanzas from Bjarkamál that were recited at dawn before the Battle of Stiklestad, and they concern...
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and Bödvar Bjarki kills Agnar in a duel and he dies with a smile. In Bjarkamál, during Hrólfr Kraki's and his champions' last fight, Bödvar Bjarki recalls...
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Gesta Danorum and as Bøki avari ("Rørik son of the avaricious Bøk") in Bjarkamál, and where the father's name can be explained as a misinterpretation of...
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heroic poem Bjarkamál. Possibly the same figure as Beowulf. Hrólfs saga kraka, Latin epitome of Skjöldunga saga, Gesta Danorum, Bjarkamál, Bjarkarímur...
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lost works. Poems quoted include the Thorsdrápa, Ragnarsdrápa, Húsdrápa, Bjarkamál, and others. Other lost sources believed to be consulted by Sturluson...
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Hrolf's champions are roused from sleep and rallied by the chanting the Bjarkamál, a famous Old Norse poem whose origins supposedly lie in this event; it...
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