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)
Tyrfing
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Tyrfing, also rendered as Tirfing or Tyrving, was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which features in the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and the Hervar
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
…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 third, containing the riddles of Gestumblindi. It has inspired later writers and…
Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.