Helgakviða Hundingsbana II
"Völsungakviða in forna" or "Helgakviða Hundingsbana II" is an Old Norse poem found in the Poetic Edda. It constitutes one of the Helgi lays together with Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar.
Helgi returns to Valhalla
Sigrún waiting by Helgi's barrow
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 that Helgi and his mistress Sigrún were Helgi Hjörvarðsson and Sváva of the Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar reborn. They were once again reborn as Helgi Haddingjaskati and Kára whose story survives as a part of the Hrómundar saga Gripssonar.
Helgi returns to Valhalla
Sigrun waiting by Helgi's barrow
"Helgi and Sigrun" (1901) by Johannes Gehrts.
Image: Wulfing navy on the move