The saga deals with the sword Tyrfing and how it was forged and cursed by the Dwarves Dvalinn and Durin for king Svafrlami.

Hjalmar never lost a battle until meeting a berserker wielding the cursed sword Tyrfing.

The eldest was a head taller than the rest and his name was Angantyr, and it was to him that Arngrim had entrusted the sword Tyrfing, which had been cursed by its makers, the Dwarves Dvalinn and Durin.

mithril ) offered to take on Angantyr who wielded the cursed sword Tyrfing, but Hjalmar insisted on doing it himself.

" Heidrek, realising that Gestumblindi was Odin, became very angry and wanted to strike Odin with his cursed sword Tyrfing.

She does so in order to make him give her heirloom, the cursed sword Tyrfing.

Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.

Tyrfing, Tirfing or Tyrving ( The name is of uncertain origin, possibly connected to the Terwingi ) was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which figures in the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and the Hervarar saga.

Hervor secretly gave her son the sword Tyrfing.

In Hervarar saga, Dvalin is one of a pair of dwarves ( including Durin ) who forged the magic sword Tyrfing.

This did not stop Arngrim's granddaughter Hervor from approaching the mounds and demanding the enchanted sword Tyrfing from her father Angantyr.

Heiðr and Sigrlami had the son Svafrlami who forced the two dwarves Dvalin and Durin to forge the magic sword Tyrfing.

For the mythological sword see Tyrfing

The band is named after the royal sword Tyrfing from Norse mythology.

Svafrlami forced the dwarves Dvalinn and Durin to forge himself a superb sword, Tyrfing.

A similar sword to Tyrfing is Dáinsleif, a sword from the legend of the eternal battle Hjaðningavíg, made by the dwarf Dain.

Named after the Norse Mythology sword Tyrfing.

Hervor is the name of two female characters in the cycle of the magic sword Tyrfing, presented in Hervarar saga with parts found in the Poetic Edda.

When she learned of her father's identity she decided to live as her father and to find Tyrfing, the magic sword.

The sword Tyrfing would continue its ill work, and Heidrek slew his brother Angantyr with the sword.

Heidrek or Heiðrekr was one of the main characters in the cycle about the magic sword Tyrfing.

Hervor secretely gave her son the sword Tyrfing as she bade him farewell, and his brother Angantyr kept him company for a while.

The Tyrfing Cycle is a collection of Norse legends, unified by the shared element of the magic sword Tyrfing.

Tyrfing appears in the Hervarar Saga.

Saxo Grammaticus agrees with Hervarar saga by giving the same names for nine of the twelve sons: Angantyr, Hjörvard, Hervard, Hrani, Biarbe, Tyrfing, Tand, two Haddings, Brand, Brodd and Hiarrande.

The name first appears in the Hervarar saga when Angantyr has avenged his father Heidrek and retaken the Dwarf-cursed sword Tyrfing:

They were all slain at Samsø, by the Swedish champion Hjalmar, and his Norwegian sworn brother Orvar-Odd ; but Hjalmar, being wounded by Tyrfing ( its first evil deed ), has only time to sing his death-song before he dies, and asks Orvar-Odd to bring his body to Ingeborg, daughter of Yngvi at Uppsala.

He was accompanied by eight mounted thralls, and when Heidrek slept at night, the thralls broke into his tent and took Tyrfing and slew Heidrek.

The Goths won because Angantyr used Tyrfing.

the Latin form Greutungi ) and Tyrfing ( Visigoth, cf.

He found Angantyr dead, but Hjalmar was sitting on a hill covered with flowers, lethally wounded by Tyrfing.

Orvar-Odd buried all the slain men in barrows and Tyrfing as well so as to ensure that it would not cause a second and third malicious deed, after Hjalmar's death.

Tyrfing would not remain buried.

Like Tyrfing, Dainsleif gave wounds that never healed and could not be unsheathed without killing a man.

Like Tyrfing, it was taken from a barrow-wight.

The two stories agree on this point: Livy's version is: By this blood-most pure before the outrage wrought by the king's son-I swear, and you, O gods, I call to witness that I will drive hence Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, together with his cursed wife and his whole blood, with fire and sword and every means in my power, and I will not suffer them or any one else to reign in Rome.

Muradin, however, learns that the sword is cursed.

The cursed nature of the sword adds to Elric ’ s guilt and self-loathing even as he feels pleasure when the stolen lifeforce enters his body.

When Oedipus, the king of Thebes, realized he had married his own mother and had two sons and two daughters with her, he blinded himself and cursed his sons to divide their inheritance ( the kingdom ) by the sword.

There is also a " cursed " sword which sends the wielder into a berserk state in the presence of enemies.

Crossing a river, the sword cursed by the Blacksmith and previously thrown in the river, cuts off his legs.

Angantyr died during a fight on Samsø against the Swedish hero Hjalmar, whose friend Orvar-Odd buried the cursed sword in a barrow together with Angantyr.

The quiet Amyclaeans were struck by the cursed and numerous forces of the swamp, unstoppable beings such as the monstrous serpent with nine heads, the Lernaean Hydra, which attacked from the swamps with poisonous venom, and whose heads would re-grow as quickly as Hercules could slice them off with his sword.

*" I have put the two-edged sword of my spirit into thy mouth, that whoever I pronounce blessed, through thy mouth, is blessed to eternity ; and whoever I pronounce cursed through thy mouth is cursed to eternity.

Greed for this cursed treasure ultimately caused the deaths of Hreidmar and his two surviving sons: Hreidmar was killed by Fafnir, who transformed into a lindworm, and the other two were slain by Sigurd's sword Gram.

In the first scene of Act 2, Fleance meets his father, who asks him to take his sword and tells him he is reluctant to go to bed due to the " cursed thoughts that nature / gives way to in repose!

Orvar-Odd buried the twelve brothers in barrows on Samsø together with the cursed sword, so that it would no longer cause any harm.

Unable to draw his sword, Roan allows Yufa to stab him with a cursed blade.