Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar
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"Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar" is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda, found in the Codex Regius manuscript where it follows Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and precedes Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The portion
Helgi, Sváva and Heðinn. An illustration from Fredrik Sander's 1893 Swedish edition of the Poetic Edda
Helgi Hundingsbane
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Helgi Hundingsbane is a hero in Norse sagas. Helgi appears in Volsunga saga and in two lays in the Poetic Edda named Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The Poetic Edda relates t
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar
…be a patchwork of old poems, glued together with prose passages. The poem relates the story of Helgi Hjörvarðsson, loosely connected to the story of Helgi Hundingsbani. The poem begins with a Norwegian king named Hjörvarðr. The king had four wives: Álfhildr with whom he had a son named Heðinn, a second by the name…
Helgi returns to Valhalla
Sigrun waiting by Helgi's barrow
"Helgi and Sigrun" (1901) by Johannes Gehrts.
Wulfing navy on the move