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.
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)
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
Hervararkviða
…shieldmaiden Hervor and her visiting her father Angantyr's ghost at his barrow. She does so in order to make him give her an heirloom, the cursed sword Tyrfing. For a fuller analysis of the text as a whole, including manuscript sources, and stemmatics, see Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks…
Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.