Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
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Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks is a legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas in Germanic heroic legend. It tells of wars between the Goths and the Huns during the 4th
Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar bid each other farewell Mårten Eskil Winge (1866).
Hervor's death Peter Nicolai Arbo
Örvar-Oddr informs Ingeborg about Hjalmar's death August Malmström (1859)
Hervararkviða
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Hervararkviða, is an Old Norse poem from the Hervarar saga, and which is sometimes included in editions of the Poetic Edda.
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
…the plain, through which glittered white corslet and golden helmet, as the Hunnish host came riding on. The text contains several poetic sections: the Hervararkviða, on Hervor's visit to her father's grave and her retrieval of the sword Tyrfing; another, the Hlöðskviða, on the battle between Goths and Huns; and a…
Hervör wakes her father Angantýr's ghost from his barrow to demand the cursed sword Tyrfing. Oil painting by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein-Stub (1783–1816)